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99 However, they were not satisfied with perpetrating these crimes, but about the same time were ravaging the Asiatic coast,Greek settlements in Asia Minor. See Isoc. 4.144. committing outrages against the islands,For example, Samos (Xen. Hell. 2.3.6), by expelling the democratic faction and setting up “decarchis” there. subverting the free governments in Italy and Sicily, setting up despotisms in their stead,Sparta supported Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse in extending his power over Greek cities in Sicily and Italy. See Diodorus xiv. 10 and cf. Isoc. 4.126, which should be read in this connection. overrunning the Peloponnesus and filling it with seditions and wars. For, tell me, against which of the cities of Hellas did they fail to take the field? Which of them did they fail to wrong?

100 Did they not rob the Eleans of part of their territory,See Dio. Sic. 14.17. did they not lay waste the land of the Corinthians,See Xen. Hell. 4.5.19. did they not disperse the Mantineans from their homes,See Isoc. 4.126; Xen. Hell. 5.2.1. did they not reduce the Phliasians by siege,See Xen. Hell. 5.3.21 ff. and Isoc. 4.126. and did they not invade the country of the Argives,See Xen. Hell. 4.4.19. never ceasing from their depredations upon the rest of the world and so bringing upon themselves the disaster at Leuctra? Some maintain that this disaster was the cause of the misfortunes which overtook Sparta, but they do not speak the truth. For it was not because of this that they incurred the hatred of their allies; it was because of their insolence in the time preceding that they were defeated in this battle and fell into peril of losing their own city.

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