for the next eight years.
XXXV I. After the Roman camp had been moved nearer the citv. these conditions were sent to Lacedaemon. None of them
J产__一 of course, were very agreeaDie to the tyrant, mougn lie was relieved to find that nothing was said about repatriating the refugees, but what he resented most of all was being deprived of his ships and his seaports. The sea had been a great source of profit to him as long as he could infest the whole Maleatic coastline with his pirate ships, and, moreover, the men drawn from the maritime cities furnished him with by far the finest of 妞troops._.
He had discussed the conditions pnvately witn nis menus, but as courtiers are untrustworthy in all other matters, so are they especially in keeping secrets, and the consul's demands soon became generally known. They were not objected to so strongly by the great body of the citizens as they were by the
individuals who were immediately affected by them. Those who had married the wives of the political exiles and those who had appropriated any of their property were as indignant as though they were to lose what belonged to themselves, instead of restoring wha who had been freed by the t3 gone nut an even worse slavery awaiwtg L11Ca1 il L11Gy Llau pass into the power of their enraged masters. The mercen troops were angry at losing their pay when peace was establish and they saw no chance of returning to their own cities, wl were as bitterly opposed to the supporters of tyrants as to
is themselves.
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siege of Lacedaemon — a candidate entry
The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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