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another army, came and restored the Phocians. And the Lacedaemonians having engraven the record of their pri- vilege of consulting the oracle before others, which the Delphians gave them, upon the forehead of the brazen wolf which stands there, he, also, having received from the Phocians the like privilege for the Athenians, had it cut upon the same wolf of brass on his right side. That he did well and wisely in thus restraining the ex- ertions of the Athenians within the compass of Greece, the events themselves that happened afterward bore suffi- cient witness. For, in the first place, the Eubceans re- volted, against whom he passed over with forces; and then, immediately after, news came that the Megarians were turned their enemies, and a hostile army was upon the borders of Attica, under the conduct of Plistoanax, king of the Lacedaemonians. Wherefore Pericles came with his army back again in all haste out of Euboea, to meet the war which threatened at home ; and did not venture to engage a numerous and brave army eager for battle ; but perceiving that Plistoanax was a very young man, and governed himself mostly by the counsel and advice of Cieandrides, whom the ephors had sent with him, by reason of his youth, to be a kind of guardian and assistant to him, he privately made trial of this man's integrity, and, in a short time, having corrupted him with money, prevailed with him to withdraw the Peloponnesians out of Attica. When the army had retired and dispersed into their several states, the Lacedaemonians in anger fined their king in so large a sum of money, that, unable to pay it, he quitted Lacedaemon ; while Cieandrides fled, and had sentence of death passed upon him in his ab- sence. This was the father of Gylippus, who overpowered the Athenians in Sicily. And it seems that this covet- ousness was an hereditary disease transmitted from father

to son ; for Gylippus also afterwards was caught in foul