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 GREECE,-ITS HUMIOUROUS HISTORY.
 BY M'AESA HOYLE.
 Illustrated with Sketches taken on the Spot.
 CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH.
 A snORT time after the "blaze of triumph" with which our last
chapter closed, AGts went on an expedition to Corinth, and on his
return he found things had taken a turn for the worse, his enemy
LEONIDAs having come back, and AGESILAUs having made himself so
unpleasant that he had received one of those delicate hints to retire,
which the Greeks knew so well how to give, and which it was a pecu-
liarly unsafe thing not to take. AGIs consequently did what historians
describe as going into dignified retirement, but which commonplace
people are apt to term running away. He took sanctuary at the
Temple of Chalcicecos, or, in plain language, hid himself. LEOxIDAS
looked about for him with the intention of hiding him also, and, not
finding him in, set himself to work to find him out. Seeing it was
impossible to tempt him openly from his retreat, his enemies deter-
mined upon stratagem, and three pretended friends induced him to
try a bath, on returning from which he was suddenly seized, and after
a sham trial was strangled. With the magnanimity peculiar to the
ancient Greeks, they repeated the performance on the necks of AGIs's
mother and grandmother. LEONIDAS insisted on AGIS'S widow
marrying his son CLEOMEN'ES, and having made himself generally
obnoxious, did what many a better man had done before him-he
died. With the continual good counsel of his wife-who, by the way,
always used the name of her late husband as an example for CLEOMENES
to profit by-that worthy became a follower in the steps of AGis, and
attempted to revive the simplicity and abstemiousness of LYCUmGUS.


He exhibited in the carrying out of his plans all that heroic disregard
for human life and existing laws which formed so striking a ft'at re in
the characters of these ancient great creatures, and finding that tih
Ephori put him a little out of the way, lh puit thiiii completely out of
the way, following up that noble deed by poisoning his royal colleague
and putting his brother on the throne, although the act was altogether
illegal. However, monarcls who stab their enemies wholesale are
not supposed to stick at trifles, and it must be always remembered
that in those glorious days, if you did not slay somebody else, somne-
body else would doubtless take the earliest opportunity of slaying
you, so that it was as well to take the initiative, if not butler.
CLEOMENES soon found an antagonist in ANTIGONUS. In n rash hour
CLEOMENES attempted to destroy the Aclinan league, but AnAu. vs
called in the assistance of AINTicONIIS, and the combined elleet of
their two heads compelled CEOIMENES to take to his two legs, ind
having carved a passage to fine, lie finished by cutting a-way to
Egypt. Hero he was very kindly received by the good sovereign, wiho
was, however, soon changed for a coin of exceedingly base miletll,
who was not a quarter as good as his late father, and consequently
not at all worth a crown. However, the crown was no sooner put lupon
him than lie put upon CLEOMcENES, and the sovereign--vulgice qllii -
soon clapt CLEOMENES inl qu)od. InI the absence of the king, Clo. OtNI:S
made his attendants very tight, and then broke loose himself, and with
a few friends with daggers drawn before them, nod tag-rag and bb)-
tail drawn after them, paraded the streets, calling tlhe people to
liberty. As, however, the people didn't seen to care about it, thoro
was no response, and the caul was simply born upon the wills.
Under thoso depressing circumstances, CLEOaMNEs determined not to
return and succour hia mother and children, that would have been
mean, but to kill himself on the spot, which was noble.


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