HISTORY OF GREECE, PART II. CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE. CHAPTER LXXVI. FROM THE PEACE OF ANTALKIDAS DOWN TO THE SUBJUGATION OF OLYNTHUS BY SPARTA. THE peace or convention l which bears the name of Antalkidas, was an incident of serious and mournful import in Grecian history. Its true character cannot be better described than in a brief re- mark and reply which we find cited in Plutarch. " Alas for Hel- las (observed some one to Agesilaus) when we see our Laconians medising ! " "Nay (replied the Spartan king), say rather the Medes (Persians) laconising" 2 These two propositions do not exclude each other. Both were perfectly true. The convention emanated from a separate part- nership between Spartan and Persian interests. It was solicited by the Spartan Antalkidas, and propounded by him to Tiribazus 1 It goes by both names ; Xenophon more commonly speaks of 17 dprjvrj Isokrates, of al avv&rjKai. Though we say, the peace of Antalkidas, the Greek authors say rj TT' 'Aira/UtJov elpT]vr) ; I do not observe that they ever phrase it with the gen- itive case 'AvraTucidov simply, without a preposition.
- Plutarch, Artaxerxes, c. 22 (compare Plutarch, Agesil. c. 23 ; and his
Apophtheg. Lacon. p. 213 B). 'O [lev yap 'Ay^crtAaof, irpbg rbv e'nrovra fyfilv oi AuKuvff ! . . MaA/lov, elirev, VOL. X. 1 IOC.
