. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. ts of Trapezus orTrebizond, on the Euxine, where they had now arrived, they werehospitably received, and, being cantoned in some Colchian villagesnear the town, refreshed themselves after the hardships they hadundergone by a repose of thirty days. The most difficult part of the return of the Ten Thousand wasnow accomplished, and it is unnecessary to trace the remainder oftheir route. After many adventures they succeeded in reachingByzantium, and they subsequently engaged to serve the Lace-dsemonians in a war which Sp
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. ts of Trapezus orTrebizond, on the Euxine, where they had now arrived, they werehospitably received, and, being cantoned in some Colchian villagesnear the town, refreshed themselves after the hardships they hadundergone by a repose of thirty days. The most difficult part of the return of the Ten Thousand wasnow accomplished, and it is unnecessary to trace the remainder oftheir route. After many adventures they succeeded in reachingByzantium, and they subsequently engaged to serve the Lace-dsemonians in a war which Sparta had just declared against thesatraps Tissaphemes and Pharnabazus. In the spring of 399, Thimbron, the Lacedaemonian com-mander, arrived at Pergamus, and the remainder of the Ten Thou-sand Greeks became incorporated with his army. Xenophon nowreturned to Athens, where he must have arrived shortly after theexecution of his master Socrates. Disgusted probably by thatevent, he rejoined his old comrades in Asia, and subsequentlyreturned to Greece along with CHAPTEE XVI. THE SUPREMACY OF SPARTA, 404-371. After the fall of Athens Sparta stood without a rival in the various cities which had belonged to the Athenian empireLysander established an oligarchical Council of Ten, called aDecarchy or Decernvirate, subject to the control of a SpartanHarmost or governor. The Decarchies, however, remained only ashort time in power, since the Spartan government regarded themwith jealousy as the partisans of Lysander ; but harmosts continuedto be placed in every state subject to their empire. The govern-ment of the harmosts was corrupt and oppressive ; no justice couldbe obtained against them by an appeal to the Spartan authoritiesat home; and the Grecian cities soon had cause to regret themilder and more equitable sway of Athens. On the death of Agis in 398, his half-brother Agesilaus wasappointed king, to the exclusion of Leotychides, the son of
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