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Execution of Leontius
The expedition to Phocis proving a failure, the king
was retiring from Elatea; and while this was going on,
Megaleas removed to Athens, leaving Leontius behind him
as his security for his twenty talents fine. Flight of Megaleas. The
Athenian Strategi however refused to admit him,
and he therefore resumed his journey and went
to Thebes. Meanwhile the king put to sea from the coast
of Cirrha and sailed with his guardsHypaspists, originally a bodyguard to the king, had been extended in
number and formed one or more distinct corps of light infantry (Grote, ch. 92). to the harbour of
Sicyon, whence he went up to the city and, excusing himself to
the magistrates, took up his quarters with Aratus, and spent
the whole of his time with him, ordering Apelles to sail back
to Corinth. Leontius put to death. But upon news being brought him
of the proceedings of Megaleas, he despatched
the peltasts, whose regular commander was
Leontius, in the charge of Taurion to Triphylia,
The Roman Republic Compared with Others
Nearly all historians have recorded as constitutions
The Theban constitution may be put aside.
of eminent excellence those of Lacedaemonia,
Crete, Mantinea, and Carthage. Some have
also mentioned those of Athens and Thebes.
The former I may allow to pass; but I am convinced that
little need be said of the Athenian and Theban constitutions: their growth was abnormal, the period of their
zenith brief, and the changes they experienced unusually
violent. Their glory was a sudden and fortuitous flash, so to
speak; and while they still thought themselves prosperous, and
likely to remain so, they found themselves involved in
circumstances completely the reverse. The Thebans got their
reputation for valour among the Greeks, by taking advantage
of the senseless policy of the Lacedaemonians, and the hatred
of the allies towards them, owing to the valour of one, or at
most two, men who were wise enough to appreciate the
situation. Since fortune quickly ma
The Credibility of Phylarchus
For the history of the same period, with which we are
Digression (to ch. 63) on the misstatements of Phylarchus.
now engaged, there are two authorities, Aratus
and Phylarchus,Phylarchus, said by some to be a native of Athens, by others of Naucratis, and by others again of Sicyon, wrote, among other things, a history in
twenty-eight books from the expedition of Pyrrhus into the Peloponnese (B.C.
272) to the death of Cleomenes. He was a fervent admirer of Cleomenes,
and therefore probably wrote in a partisan spirit; yet in the matter of the
outrage upon Mantinea, Polybius himself is not free from the same charge.
See Mueller's Histor. Graec. fr. lxxvii.-lxxxi. Plutarch, though admitting
Phylarchus's tendency to exaggeration (Arat. 38), yet uses his authority both
in his life of Aratus and of Cleomenes; and in the case of Aristomachus says
that he was both racked and drowned (Arat. 44). whose opinions are opposed in
many points and their statements contradic