[132] Yet at this time the Amphictyonic Council was so feeble that, had the Spartans succeeded, they would have made but a hollow acquisition of authority; unless, indeed, with the project of gaining a majority of votes, they united another for reforming or reinvigorating the institution.
[133] Thucyd., lib. i., c. 96.
[134] Heeren, Pol. Hist. of Greece.
[135] Corn. Nep. in vit. Paus.
[136] Thucyd., lib. i., c. 129.
[137] Plut. in vit. Arist.
[138] Ibid.
[139] Thucyd., lib. i.
[140] Plut. in vit. Cimon. Before this period, Cimon, though rising into celebrity, could scarcely have been an adequate rival to Themistocles.
[141] Corn. Nep. in vit. Cim.