I cannot agree with Colonel Leake however in supposing that Pisa was at any time a city, and afterwards deserted.
[698] Xen. Hellen. vii, 4. 32. ὥστε οὐδ’ ἀνεπαύσαντο τῆς νυκτὸς ἐκκόπτοντες τὰ διαπεπονημένα σκηνώματα, etc.
[699] Diodor. xv, 78; Pausanias, vi, 8, 2.
[700] Tacitus, Hist. i, 40. He is describing the murder of Galba in the Forum at Rome, by the Othonian soldiers:—
“Igitur milites Romani, quasi Vologesen aut Pacorum avito Arsacidarum solio depulsuri, ac non Imperatorem suum, inermem et senem, trucidare pergerent—disjectâ plebe, proculcato Senatu, truces armis, rapidis equis, forum irrumpunt: nec illos Capitolii aspectus, et imminentium templorum religio, et priores et futuri Principes, terruere, quominus facerent scelus, cujus ultor est quisquis successit.”
[701] Xen. Hellen. vii, 4, 32.
[702] Xen. Hellen. iii, 2, 20; Polybius, iv, 73.
[703] Xen. Hellen. vii, 4, 33, 34.
[704] Thucyd. i, 121.
Perikles in his speech at Athens alludes to this understood purpose of the Spartans and their confederacy (Thucyd. i, 143).