fretting in his excile with impatience and discontent, he counted
at once on sympathetic rancour as well as ancient frienship
to aid him in the revolution that he was still plottiting against
ungrateful and unworthy Hellenes. Such had before been
the revenge of Demaratus againts one city, and of the son
of Peisistratus against the other; and Leotychides, who was
only just dead and succeded formally by his son Archi-
damus, had at least been in a position to be not more
patriotically employed while protected in his suspicions
refuge at hostile Tegea. Party was not unknown at Sparta,
ject Pausanias may have found, if not sympathy for a pro-
ject which some ascribed to ¹ him,--the abolition of the
ephorate,--more probably encouragement for general inno-
vation, among ancient comrades and ambitious spirits who
were ill content with the renunciation of larger Hellenie
hegemony, and with the elevation and pride of Athens.
Even the Persians are certainly found within a year or two
well informed of this latter root of jealousy, and prompt to
negotiate on the assumption of its bitterness.

Interpreting the feelings of Themistocles by his own-- of
the ill-requited victor of Salamis by his own memories of
Plataea and Byzantium--he had communicated to him the
Great King's ² letter, which seems so completely to have turned
his own head, and no doubt also his correspondence, which was
still active with Artabanus, though without the effect lie hoped
for and relied on. Themistocles, as we might expect, shook
off the application, and declined to have anything to do with
the partnership, but as he declared afterwards, in admitting
the communication so far, he held it nevertheless to be no
part of his to denounce a friend; quite as little might lie
think it to be his part as an Athenian, not out of hope of
resuming his place at Athenian, to put a stop prematurely to
think it to be his part as an Athenian, not out of hope of
transactions that, conducted as they were, could only help to

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