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[8] They voted also to restore the land settled by cleruchs1 to its former owners and passed a law that no Athenian should cultivate lands outside of Attica.2 By this generous act they recovered the goodwill of the Greeks and made their own leadership more secure.

1 See chap. 23.4.

2 Thousands of Athenian citizens lost their last hope of recovering the land outside Attica which they or their fathers had lost in the catastrophe of 404. These hopes were still alive in the Corinthian War.

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