Are not tyrannies already established in Euboea , an island, remember, not far from Thebes and Athens ? Does he not write explicitly in his letters, I am at peace with those who are willing to obey me ? And he does not merely write this without putting it into practice; but he is off to the Hellespont , just as before he hurried to Ambracia ; in the Peloponnese he occupies the important city of Elis ; only the other day he intrigued against the Megarians. Neither the Greek nor the barbarian world is big enough for the fellow’s ambition.