44 HISTORY OF GREECE. made such progress, that he claims for her the right of taking the command by sea, in that crusade which he strenuously enfor.es, of Athens and Sparta in harmonious unity at the head of all Greece j against the Asiatic barbarians. 1 It would seem that a few years after the peace of Antalkidas, Sparta became somewhat ashamed of having surrendered the Asiatic Greeks to Persia; and that king Agesipolis and other leading Spartans encouraged the scheme of a fresh Grecian expe- dition against Asia, in compliance with propositions from some disaffected subjects of Artaxerxes. 2 Upon some such project, currently discussed though never realized, Isokrates probably built his Panegyrical Oration, composed in a lofty strain of patri- otic eloquence (380 B. c.) to stimulate both Sparta and Athens in the cause, and calling on both, as joint chiefs of Greece, to sus- pend dissensions at home for a great Pan-hellenic manifestation against the common enemy abroad. But whatever ideas of this kind the Spartan leaders may have entertained, their attention was taken off, about 382 B. c. by movements in a more remote region of the Grecian world, which led to important consequences. Since the year 414 B. c. (when the Athenians were engaged in gyrical Discourse ore Aanetiaiftovioi fj,ev fypxov TUV 'E^Ar/vuv, fy/ielf 6e TaTTflVUf iTTpClTTOfieV, CtC. 1 The Panegyrical Discourse of Isokrates, the date of it being pretty ex- actly known, is of great value for enabling us to understand the period imme- diately succeeding the peace of Antalkidas. He particularly notices the multiplication of pirates, and the competition between Athens and Sparta about tribute from the islands in the JEgean (s. 133). T/f yf> uv Toiai>TTif KaraaTaaeuf ETrtdvfiTjOEiev, kv $ KarairovTia- Tal fiv TTfv tiahaaoav Ka~E%ovoi, Trs^Taaral <5e TUS noheif naTahappuvovoi, etc. .... Kairoi XP^I T df <t>vasi Kal IITJ 6iu Tv%i]v //eya typovovvrae roiovroif IpyoiS kiuxeipelv, 7ro/U) fiuT^ov ij Toi)f vrjaiura^ 6aafj.o7.o-/Elv, oiif aljiov iaTiv ihseiv, dpuvTaf TOVTOVC [lev diu OTravidrijTa rrjf yqc op avayKa^oftevovf, roi)f d' fjireipurae dt' ufy-doviav r^f X&paf frjv fiev avr^f apydv nepiopuvrae, etc. (s. 151). . .. .'flv T/fielc (Athenians and Spartans) ovdsfiiav noiovfis^a Trpovotav, uXhti irepl fiev TUV Kvuhuduv vijauv &[i<lno(3?]Tov[tV, roaav* raj 6s TO n'h.Tj'&of Kal Trj^iKavraf TO [ifye&of dvvapeif ovruf eiKy ~u Bapfiupy Compare Xenoph. Hellen. vi, 1, 12 ftr) eif vyavdpia iiri(3teirovraf t etc
- Diodor. xv, 9, 19.
