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Strona 109 - Samos, in order that his presence might secure the success of the movement. It was then proposed in the assembly that a committee of thirty should be named to draw up laws for the future government of the city, and to undertake its temporary administration. Among the most prominent of the thirty names were those of Critias and Theramenes. The proposal was of course carried. Lysander himself addressed the assembly, and contemptuously told them that they had better take thought for their personal safety,...
Strona 95 - ... resources, Athens was not vanquished by her external foes. She fell by her own hand. Even before the Sicilian expedition, the state was shaken to its base by the party divisions within its walls. Party intrigues led Alcibiades to point out to the Spartans the road to Ionia and to the treasury of the King ; party intrigues delivered into the hands of the foe the last fleet of the city, and, in the end, the city herself. The victory which terminated the war was a victory of treason.
Strona 100 - ... full auxiliary strength of Sparta, deserves high admiration. But the feature which stands yet more eminent in his character, — a feature infinitely rare in the Grecian character, generally, — is, that the energy of a successful leader was combined with complete absence both of vindictive antipathies for the past, and of overbearing ambition for himself.
Strona 72 - Taking all these causes of evil together — the decarchies, the harmosts, and the overwhelming dictatorship of Lysander — and construing other parts of the Grecian world by the analogy of Athens under the Thirty, we shall be warranted in affirming that the first years of the Spartan empire, which followed upon the victory of ^Egospotami, were years of all-pervading tyranny, and multifarious intestine calamity, such as Greece had never before endured.
Strona 95 - Curtius says, that if any one was to blame for the death of the wrecked, Theramenes was the guilty man ; yet he took advantage of the opportunity for his party purposes, to requite the kindness shown him by the generals, in abstaining from blaming him in their despatches, by coming forward as their accuser. Hist., III. p. 539. It was a difficult and delicate task for Lysias to turn an unconstitutional act to account as a precedent, but he does it skilfully. Siding so far with that class of his hearers...
Strona 106 - Antiphon, the son of Sophilus, at that time already an advanced sexagenarian, but full of unwearying activity, political experience, and knowledge of human nature ; inexhaustible in clever devices, trustworthy and reticent ; in intellectual power and influence superior to all his fellow-citizens, and at the same time perfect master of himself.
Strona 115 - Lycabettus, and at the distance of a mile from the latter, was the Acropolis, or citadel of Athens, a square craggy rock rising abruptly about 150 feet, with a flat summit of about 1000 feet long from east to west, by 500 feet broad from north to south.
Strona 72 - Athenians, as the period during which the constitutional government was suspended. The dark picture which is presented in this oration is the more impressive, because it is but a specimen of a widespread condition of things at that time. Says Mr. Grote : " Lysander, in all the overweening insolence of victory, while rewarding his devoted partisans with an exaltation comprising every sort of license and tyranny, stained the dependent cities with countless murders, perpetrated on private as well as...
Strona 60 - The latter on returning saw before them men who had handed in their relatives to be put to death without trial ; who had seized upon and enjoyed their property ; who had expelled them all from the city, and a large portion of them even from Attica ; and who had held themselves in mastery not merely...
Strona 116 - But the Athenian demos, on coming back from Pirseus, exhibited the rare phenomenon of a restoration after cruel wrong suffered, sacrificing all the strong impulse of retaliation to a generous and deliberate regard for the future march of the commonwealth.