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18.
But at last a time came when the tyrants of
Athens and the far older tyrannies of the rest of Hellas were, with the
exception of those in Sicily, once and for all put down by Lacedaemon;
for this city, though after the settlement of the Dorians, its present
inhabitants, it suffered from factions for an unparalleled length of time,
still at a very early period obtained good laws, and enjoyed a freedom from
tyrants which was unbroken;
it has possessed the same form of government for more than four hundred
years, reckoning to the end of the late war,
and has thus been in a position
to arrange the affairs of the other states.
Not many years after the deposition of the tyrants, the battle of Marathon
was fought between the Medes and the Athenians.
[2]
Ten years afterwards the barbarian returned with the armada for the
subjugation of Hellas.
In the face of this great danger the command of the confederate Hellenes
was assumed by the Lacedaemonians in virtue of their superior power;
and the Athenians having made up their minds to abandon their city, broke
up their homes, threw themselves into their ships, and became a naval
people.
This coalition, after repulsing the barbarian, soon afterwards split into
two sections, which included the Hellenes who had revolted from the king, as
well as those who had aided him in the war.
At the head of the one stood Athens, at the head of the other Lacedaemon,
one the first naval, the other the first military power in Hellas.
[3]
For a short time the league held together,
till the Lacedaemonians and
Athenians quarrelled, and made war upon each other with their allies,
a duel
into which all the Hellenes sooner or later were drawn, though some might at
first remain neutral.
So that the whole period from the Median war to this, with some peaceful
intervals, was spent by each power in war, either with its rival, or with
its own revolted allies, and consequently afforded them constant practice in
military matters, and that experience which is learnt in the school of
danger.
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