The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests Volume N . 2; From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ...of Potidaea, are fact3 which speak for them The Megareans were accused of ploughing some consecrated lands: they were accused of harbouring the Athenian slaves, fugitives, ami exiles; other causes of complaint might easily have been discovered or invented by their powerful neighbours, who were provoked that such a small community on their frontier should uniformly spurn their authority. But the malignity of comic writers ascribed the severe decree against Megara to an event equally disgraceful to the morals of Athens, and injurious to the honour of Pericles. The following verses are transluted from the Acharnensis of Aristophanes; Juvenes profecti Megaram ebrij auferunt Simxtham ex sortatione nobilem: Megarensis hinc populus, dolore perictus, ', Furatur Aspasix duo scorta, hand impiger: Hinc initium belli prorupit Universis Grsecis, ob tres mrritriculas. -" Vol. II. 93 Chap, selves; but the attention of this assembly should XV-be directed to objects more important than particular injuries, however flagrant and enormous. The general oppressive systemof Athenian policy;--it is this which demands your most serious concern; a system aiming at nothing less than the destruction of Grecian freedom, which is ready to perish through your supine neglect. That moderation and probity, men of Sparta for which your domestic councils are justly famous, render you the dupes of foreign artifice, and expose you to become the victims of foreign ambition; which, instead of opposing with prompt alacrity you have nourished by unseasonable delay; and, in consequence of this fatal error, are now called to contend, not with the infant weakness, but with the matured vigour of your enemies, those enemies who, ever unsatisfied with their present measuie of prosperity, are c...