ket-place, where they still pay pious reverence to
his memory as "a founder of the state." So strictly, it would seem, do
the mass of mankind confine the term brave and good to those who are the
benefactors of themselves.

IV

B.C. 366. And so ends the history of Euphron. I return to the point
reached at the commencement of this digression. (1) The Phliasians were
still fortifying Thyamia, and Chares was still with them, when Oropus
(2) was seized by the banished citizens of that place. The Athenians
in consequence despatched an expedition in full force to the point of
danger, and recalled Chares from Thyamia; whereupon the Sicyonians and
the Arcadians seized the opportunity to recapture the harbour of Sicyon.
Meanwhile the Athenians, forced to act single-handed, with none of their
allies to assist them, retired from Oropus, leaving that town in the
hands of the Thebans as a deposit till the case at issue could be
formally adjudicated.

(1) See above, VII. ii. 23; iii. 3; Diod. xv. 76.

(2) See Thuc. viii. 60.

Now Lycomedes (3) had discovered that the Athenians were harbouring a
grievance against her allies, as follows:--They felt it hard that, while
Athens was put to vast trouble on their account, yet in her need not a
man among them stepped forward to render help. Accordingly he persuaded
the assembly of Ten Thousand to open negotiations with Athens for the
purpose of forming an alliance. (4) At first some of the Athenians were
vexed that they, being friends of Lacedaemon, should become allied to
her opponents; but on further reflection they discovered it was no less
desirable for the Lacedaemonians than for themselves that the Arcadians
should become independent of Thebes. That being so, they were quite
ready to accept an Arcadian alliance. Lycomedes himself was still
engaged on this transaction when, taking his departure from Athens, he
died, in a manner which looked like divine intervention.

(3) See above, VII. i. 23.

(4) This proves that "the Ten Thousand made war and peace in the name
of all Arkadia"; cf. "Hell." VII. i. 38; Diod. xv. 59. "They
received and listened to the ambassadors of other Greek states";
Demosth. "F. L." 220. "They regulated and paid the standing army
of the Federation"; "Hell." VII. iv. 22, 23; Diod. xv. 62. "They
sat in judgment on political offenders against the collective
majority of the Arkadian League"; "Hell." VII. iv. 33; Freeman,
"Hist.