I thought it indispensable to give adequate development to this important period of Grecian history, even at the cost of that inconvenient break which terminates my tenth volume. At one time I had hoped to comprise in that volume not only the full history of Dionysius I., but also that of Dionysius II. and Dion—and that of Timoleon besides. Three new chapters, including all this additional matter, are already composed and ready. But the bulk of the present volume compels me to reserve them for the commencement of my next, which will carry Grecian history down to the battle of Chæroneia and the death of Philip of Macedon—and which will, I trust, appear without any long interval of time. G. G. LONDON, FEB. 15, 1852. CONTENTS. VOL. X. PART II. CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE. CHAPTER LXXVI. FROM THE PEACE OF ANTALKIDAS DOWN TO THE SUBJUGATION OF OLYNTHUS BY SPARTA. Peace or convention of Antalkidas. Its import and character. Separate partnership between Sparta and Persia.—Degradation in the form of the convention—an edict drawn up, issued, and enforced, by Persia upon Greece.—Gradual loss of Pan-hellenic dignity, and increased submission towards Persia as a means of purchasing Persian help—on the part of Sparta.—Her first application before the Peloponnesian war; subsequent applications.—Active partnership between Sparta and Persia against Athens, after the Athenian catastrophe at Syracuse. Athens is ready to follow her example.—The Persian force aids Athens against Sparta, and breaks up her maritime empire.—No excuse for the subservience of Sparta to the Persians. Evidence that Hellenic independence was not destined to last much longer.—Promise of universal autonomy—popular to the Grecian ear—how carried out.—The Spartans never intended to grant, nor ever really granted, general autonomy.—Immediate point made against Corinth and Thebes—isolation of Athens.—Persian affairs—unavailing efforts of the Great King to reconquer Egypt.—Evagoras, despot of Salamis in Cyprus.—Descent of Evagoras—condition of the island of Cyprus.—Greek princes of Salamis are dispossessed by a Phœnician dynasty.—Evagoras dethrones the Phœnician, and becomes despot of Salamis.—Able and beneficent government of Evagoras.—His anxiety to revive Hellenism in Cyprus—he looks to the aid of Athens.—Relations of Evagoras with Athens during the closing years of the Peloponnesian war.—Evagoras at war with the Persians—he receives aid both from Athens and from Egypt—he is at first very successful, so as even to capture Tyre.—Struggle of Evagoras against the whole force of the Persian empire after the peace of Antalkidas.—Evagoras, after a ten years’ war, is reduced, but obtains an honorable peace, mainly owing to the dispute between the two satraps jointly commanding.—Assassination of Evagoras, as well as of his son Pnytagoras, by an eunuch slave