The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . race, and the ruin ulti-mately of Sparta itself, that this maxim nattered an instinctwhich they had cherished with blind obstinacy, until it becametheir bane. But for Sparta, the consolidation of the Athenianempire would long ago have restrained this self-isolatingsentiment within its proper limits. When the Lesbians medi-tated revolt, their envoys at Olympia had nothing more to sayfor themselves than that Athens had offended this theory, the Spartans by enforcing the peace of Antalkidasrestored to t
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . race, and the ruin ulti-mately of Sparta itself, that this maxim nattered an instinctwhich they had cherished with blind obstinacy, until it becametheir bane. But for Sparta, the consolidation of the Athenianempire would long ago have restrained this self-isolatingsentiment within its proper limits. When the Lesbians medi-tated revolt, their envoys at Olympia had nothing more to sayfor themselves than that Athens had offended this theory, the Spartans by enforcing the peace of Antalkidasrestored to the several Greek States the absolute power ofmanaging their own affairs and of making war upon oneanother. In practice Sparta was resolved that their armiesshould move only at her dictation; that into her treasuryshould flow the tribute, the gathering of which was denouncedas the worst crime of imperial Athens, and that in the govern-ment of the oligarchical factions she should have the strongestmaterial guarantee for the absolute submission of the Greekcities.—Sir G. W.
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