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80 HISTORY UF GKEECE. dictive sentiment must have been generated by the loss or mal. treatment of sons, husbands, and brothers. The Theban exiles found at Athens not only secure shelter, but genuine sympathy with their complaints against Lacedaemo- nian injustice. The generous countenance which had been shown by the Thebans, twenty-four years before, to Thrasybulus and the ether Athenian refugees, during the omnipotence of the Thirty, was now gratefully requited under this reversal of fortune to both cities ; J and requited too in defiance of the menaces of Sparta, who demanded that the exiles should be expelled, as she had in the earlier occasion demanded that the Athenian refugees should be dismissed from Thebes. To protect these Theban ex- iles, however, was all that Athens could do. Their restoration was a task beyond her power, and seemingly yet more beyond their own. For the existing government of Thebes was firmly seated, and had the citizens completely under control. Adminis- tered by a small faction, Archias, Philippus, Hypates, and Leon- tiades (among whom the first two were at this moment polemarchs, though the last was the most energetic and resolute it was at the same time sustained by the large garrison of fifteen hundred Lacedaemonians and allies, 2 under Lysanoridas and two other har mosts, in the Kadmeia, as well as by the Lacedcemonian posts in the other Boeotian cities around, Orchomenus. Thespias, Pla- taea, Tanagra, etc. Though the general body of Theban senti- 1 Plutarch, Pelopidas, c. 6. See this sentiment of gratitude on the part of Athenian democrats, to- wards those Thebans who had sheltered them at Thebes during the exile along with Thrasybulus, strikingly brought out in an oration of Lysias, of which unfortunately only a fragment remains (Lysias, Frag. 46, 47, Bekk. ; Dionys. Hal. Judic. de Isseo, p. 594). The speaker of this oration had been received at Thebes by Kephisodotus the father of Pherenikus ; the latter was now in exile at Athens ; and the speaker had not only welcomed him (Pherenikus) to his house with brotherly affection, but also delivered this oration on his behalf before the Dikastery ; Pherenikus having rightful claims on the property left behind by the assassinated Androkleidas. 2 Dipdor. xv, 25 ; Plutarch, Pelopidas, c. 1.2 ; Plutarch, De Gen. So^r. c. 17, p. 586 E. In another passage of this treatise (the last sentence but one) he sets down the numbers in the Kadmeia at five :housafld ; but the smaller num- ber is most likely to be true.