. A history of Greece for junior classes . by famine, theyentered into negotiation with the enemy. They werereferred to the authorities at Sparta, and at last had toaccept the following hard terms : 1. The long walls andthe fortifications of Peirteeus were to be demolished; 2. All shij)s except twelve were to be delivered up; 3. All the exiled oligarchs Avere to be recalled ; 4. Athenswas to have the same friends and enemies as Sparta;5. All the allies of Athens were to be restored to inde-pendence, and Athens was to recognise the supremacy ofSiiarta. Therumenes, who had negotiated this peace,
. A history of Greece for junior classes . by famine, theyentered into negotiation with the enemy. They werereferred to the authorities at Sparta, and at last had toaccept the following hard terms : 1. The long walls andthe fortifications of Peirteeus were to be demolished; 2. All shij)s except twelve were to be delivered up; 3. All the exiled oligarchs Avere to be recalled ; 4. Athenswas to have the same friends and enemies as Sparta;5. All the allies of Athens were to be restored to inde-pendence, and Athens was to recognise the supremacy ofSiiarta. Therumenes, who had negotiated this peace,advised the desponding people to accept it. The termswere at once complied with, and when Lysander enteredPeira^eus, the work of demolition was commenced. Thusended the Peloponnesian war, 404, in which moreblood had been shed than in all the previous wars puttogether, and in which Gieece had become so muchexl.;i listed that she might easily have become the prey ofa ioixigu conqueror. ^^^W ilCl>S or THE ,^^ uF ATmi> THREE FXGUKjiS FROM PARTHE^iON. CHAPTER IX. FROM THE CLOSE OF THE PELOPONXESIAN WAR TO THEPEACE OF ANTALKIDAS. When the work of demolition was completed, Lysanderchanged the government of Athens into an men, commonly called the Thirty Tyrants, wereselected from among the partisans of S|)ai-ta, and entrustedwith almost unlimited power. The franchise was left toonly 3000 citizens, w^ho alone were allowed to carryarms, and all the rest were placed beyond the protectionof the law. After settling these matters, Lysander, ladenwith booty, returned to Sparta. The Thiity, headed by the wealthy Kritias, at firstpunished only the obnoxious demagogues, but by-and-bythey were not slow in finding pretexts for outlawingwealthy citizens, for no other reason but because theyw^ished to possess themselves of their property. Theyinaugurated, in fact, a reign of terror, during whichnearly 1400 Athenian citizens fell victims to theircruelty and a
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