ius; and all the while the fortress was building day by day these
convoys of food were duly despatched.

(15) See "Anab." VII. iii. 46.

III

But on this topic enough, perhaps, has been said to demonstrate the
loyalty of the men of Phlius to their friends, their bravery in war,
and, lastly, their steadfastness in maintaining their alliance in spite
of famine.

B.C. 367-366. It seems to have been somewhere about this date that
Aeneas the Stymphalian, (1) who had become general of the Arcadians,
finding that the state of affairs in Sicyon was intolerable, marched
up with his army into the acropolis. Here he summoned a meeting of the
Sicyonian aristocrats already within the walls, and sent to fetch
those others who had been banished without a decree of the people. (2)
Euphron, taking fright at these proceedings, fled for safety to the
harbour-town of Sicyon. Hither he summoned Pasimelus from Corinth, and
by his instrumentality handed over the harbour to the Lacedaemonians.
Once more reappearing in his old character, he began to pose as an ally
of Sparta. He asserted that his fidelity to Lacedaemon had never been
interrupted; for when the votes were given in the city whether Sicyon
should give up her allegiance to Lacedaemon, "I, with one or two
others," said he, "voted against the measure; but afterwards these
people betrayed me, and in my desire to avenge myself on them I set up
a democracy. At present all traitors to yourselves are banished--I have
seen to that. If only I could get the power into my own hands, I would
go over to you, city and all, at once. All that I can do at present,
I have done; I have surrendered to you this harbour." That was what
Euphron said to his audience there, but of the many who heard his words,
how many really believed his words is by no means evident. However,
since I have begun the story of Euphron, I desire to bring it to its
close.

(1) Is this man the famous writer {o taktikos}, a portion of whose
works, the "Treatise on Siege Operations," has been preserved
(recently re-edited by Arnold Hug--"Commentarius Poliorceticus,"
Lips. Trubner, 1884)? So Casaubon supposed. Cf. "Com. Pol." 27,
where the writer mentions {paneia} as the Arcadian term for
"panics." Readers of the "Anabasis" will recollect the tragic end
of another Aeneas, also of Stymphalus, an Arcadian officer. On the
official title {strategos} (general), Freeman ("Hist. Fed. Gov."
204