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they expressed indignation about the money which Ly- sander sent to Sparta, but most especially, because from them the Athenians had obtained the first opportunity of freeing themselves from the thirty tyrants, whom Lysander had made, and to support whom the Lacedaemonians is- sued a decree that political refugees from Athens might be arrested in whatever country they were found, and that those who impeded their arrest should be excluded from the confederacy. In reply to this the Thebans is- sued counter decrees of their own, truly in the spirit and temper of the actions of Hercules and Bacchus,* that every house and city in Boeotia should be opened to the Athenians who required it, and that he who did not help a fugitive who was seized, should be fined a talent for damages, and if any one should bear arms through Boeo- tia to Attica against the tyrants, that none of the The- bans should either see or hear of it. Nor did they pass these humane and truly Greek decrees, without at the same time making their acts conformable to their words. For Thrasybulus and those who with him occupied Phyle, set out upon tbat enterprise from Thebes, with arms and money, and secresy and a point to start from, provided for them by the Thebans. Such were the causes of com- plaint Lysander had against Thebes. And being now grown violent in his temper through the atrabilious ten- dency which increased upon him in his old age, he urged the Ephors and persuaded them to place a garrison in Thebes, and taking the commander's place, he marched forth with a body of troops. Pausanias, also, the king, was sent shortly after with an army. Now Pausanias, going round by Cithseron, was to invade Boeotia ; Ly- sander, meantime, advanced through Phocis to meet him,

• Their countrymen, so to say, whom Alcmena gave birth in

of old, the Theban Hercules and Thebes, and Bacchus the child of the Theban Bacchus, Hercules to the Theban princess.