Therefore all may justly charge the Lacedaemonians with having been the instigators and
 teachers of such deeds, but may with good reason make allowance for us, as for pupils who
 have been deceived by the false promises of their tutors and disappointed in their
 expectations. I come now finally to those offences which they alone and by themselves committed. That is, conduct of the Spartans which has no parallel in
 Athenian history. Compare, for the contrast here drawn between Sparta and Athens in their feeling for the
 barbarians, Isoc. 4.156-159 , 120, 121. Who does not
 know that the Spartans, notwithstanding that they and we harbor in common a feeling of
 hatred towards the barbarians and their kings, and notwithstanding that the Athenians,
 although beset by many wars and involved at times in great disasters, their territory
 being often ravaged and cut off by the enemy, In the
 Peloponnesian War. never once turned their eyes towards friendship and alliance
 with the barbarians, but continued steadfastly to cherish a stronger hatred against them
 because of what they plotted against the Hellenes than we feel towards those who now seek
 to injure Athens— who does not know, I say, that the Spartans, although untroubled by any evil or even by
 any prospect or fear of evil, advanced to such a pitch of greed that they were not
 satisfied to hold the supremacy by land, but were so greedy to obtain also the empire of
 the sea that at one and the same time they were inciting our allies to revolt, undertaking
 to liberate them from our power, and were negotiating with the Persian king a treaty of
 friendship and alliance, The Treaty of Miletus , 412 b.c. See Thuc.
 8.18 . promising to give over to him all the Hellenes who dwelt on the
 Asiatic coast? And yet, after they had given these pledges both to our allies and to the King and had
 conquered us in war, they reduced those whom they had sworn to set free to a state of
 slavery worse than that of the Helots, See Isoc. 4.111 and note. and they returned the favour of
 the King in such wise that they persuaded Cyrus, his younger brother, to dispute the
 throne with him, and collected an army to support Cyrus, placing Clearchus at its head,
 and dispatched it against the King For this episode see
 Isoc. 8.98 and note. . But having failed in this treachery and betrayed their purposes to the world and made
 themselves hated by all mankind, they were plunged into such a state of warfare and
 confusion as men should expect after having played false with both the Hellenes and the
 barbarians. I do not know what I need to take the time to say further about them except
 that after they had been defeated in the naval battle The
 battle of Cnidus , 394 b.c., in which the
 Spartan fleet was defeated by the joint fleets of Conon, the Athenian admiral, and
 Pharnabazus, the Persian satrap. by the forces of the King and by the leadership
 of Conon they made a peace Peace of Antalcidas. See Isoc. 4.115 and note.