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6 " Fraxagora is beyond all doubt referring- to the momentous
anli-Spartan League of 395 B.C., which was inaugurated by the
battle of Haliartus and the death of Lysandcr, which at once
raised Athens from the position of a mere dependency of Sparta
into lhal of a free and leading Hellenic state ; and which in its
result altered the whole current of Hellenic history. Originally
struck between Thebes and Athens, it was quickly joined by
Argos, Corinth, and other important states, and became so power-
ful that the military leaders proposed at once to march upon
Sparta and * destroy the wasps in their nest.' But in the following
summer the great battle of Corinth, ^ /u.cyd'X'r) pax7) vp