[340] Xen. Hellen. iii, 1, 5. Πᾶσαι γὰρ τότε αἱ πόλεις ἐπείθοντο, ὅ,τι Λακεδαιμόνιος ἀνὴρ ἐπιτάττοι.
[341] Thucyd. i, 68-120.
[342] Thucyd. iii, 9; iv, 59-85; vi, 76.
[343] See the remarkable speech of Phrynichus in Thucyd. viii, 48, 5, which I have before referred to.
[344] Xen. Hellen. ii, 3, 14. Compare the analogous case of Thebes, after the Lacedæmonians had got possession of the Kadmeia (v. 2, 34-36).
[345] Such is the justification offered by the Athenian envoy at Sparta, immediately before the Peloponnesian war (Thucyd. i, 75, 76). And it is borne out in the main by the narrative of Thucydides himself (i, 99).
[346] Xen. Hellen. iii, 1, 3. πάσης τὴς Ἑλλάδος προστάται, etc.
[347] Xen. Hellen. ii, 4, 28-30.
[348] Xen. Hellen. iii, 4, 2.
[349] Plutarch, Lysand. c. 19, 20, 21.