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If the courage or the cunning of Gongylus failed him if but a word betrayed him Pausanias was lost. He was girt by men who hated him; and he read in the dark fierce eyes of the Ionians whose pride he had so often galled, whose revenge he had so carelessly provoked the certainty of ruin.
The fleet of the great king was numerically stronger than that of the Greek allies; but it has been proved many times that naval efficiency does not depend on numerical superiority alone. The choice sections of the Persian fleet were the contingents of the Ionians and Phoenicians.
The formula 'Earth to earth and air to air' was accepted as an adequate description of what takes place at death. The western Ionians, and especially the Pythagoreans, held a very different view. For them, the soul was something divine.
Delay not, therefore, to assist Potidaea, a Dorian city besieged by Ionians, which is quite a reversal of the order of things; nor to assert the freedom of the rest.
Interference of Sparta with respect to the Fortifications of Athens. Dexterous Conduct of Themistocles. The New Harbour of the Piraeus. Proposition of the Spartans in the Amphictyonic Council defeated by Themistocles. Allied Fleet at Cyprus and Byzantium. Pausanias. Alteration in his Character. His ambitious Views and Treason. The Revolt of the Ionians from the Spartan Command. Pausanias recalled.
The Amphictyonic Council, which became subsequently so famous, was made up of Thessalians, Bœotians, Dorians, Ionians, Achæans, Locrians, and Phocians—all Hellenic in race. Their great centre was the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Now he entreats now he promises, the sympathy of the free, the enthusiasm of the brave, are alike aroused. He succeeds: the people accede to his views. IV. The Athenians agreed to send to the succour of their own colonists, the Ionians, twenty vessels of war. Melanthius, a man of amiable character and popular influence, was appointed the chief.
After the Median War we had a fleet, and so got rid of the empire and supremacy of the Lacedaemonians, who had no right to give orders to us more than we to them, except that of being the strongest at that moment; and being appointed leaders of the King's former subjects, we continue to be so, thinking that we are least likely to fall under the dominion of the Peloponnesians, if we have a force to defend ourselves with, and in strict truth having done nothing unfair in reducing to subjection the Ionians and islanders, the kinsfolk whom the Syracusans say we have enslaved.
Her navarch sends word that all is even as Themistocles and Aristeides tell. The Egyptians hold the passage to Eleusis. Infantry are disembarked on Psyttaleia. The Phœnicians and Ionians enclose us on the eastern strait. We are hemmed in.” Once more the orderly turned the water-clock. It was past midnight. The clouds had blown apart before the rising wind. The debate must end.
Others made settlements on the mainland, from the Hermes to Mount Ida. But the greatest migration was made by the Ionians, who, dislodged by Achæans, went first to Attica, and thence to the Cyclades and the coasts of Asia, afterward called Ionia. Twelve independent States were gradually formed of divers elements, and assumed the Ionian name.
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