her husband deep in his
cups and laid him to rest, and then while the lamp still burned brought
out the prince's sword. It was she also who, perceiving her brothers
shrank bank, fearing to go in and attack Alexander, said to them, "If
you do not be quick and do the deed, I will wake him up!" After they had
gone in, she, too, it was who caught and pulled to the door, clinging
fast to the knocker till the breath was out of her husband's body. (33)
Her fierce hatred against the man is variously explained. By some it
was said to date from the day when Alexander, having imprisoned his own
favourite--who was a fair young stripling--when his wife supplicated
him to release the boy, brought him forth and stabbed him in the throat.
Others say it originated through his sending to Thebes and seeking the
hand of the wife of Jason in marriage, because his own wife bore him no
children. These are the various causes assigned to explain the treason
of his wife against him. Of the brothers who executed it, the eldest,
Tisiphonus, in virtue of his seniority accepted, and up to the date of
this history (34) succeeded in holding, the government.

(30) See above, VI. i. 2 foll.

(31) See Dem. "c. Aristocr." 120; Diod. xv. 60 foll.

(32) B.C. 359 or 358.

(33) The woman's name was Thebe. See Diod. xvi. 14; Cicero, "de
Inven." II. xlix. 144; "de Div." I. xxv. 52; "de Off." II. vii.
25; Ovid, "Ibis," iii. 21 foll.

(34) Or, "portion of my work;" lit. "argument," {logos}. See
{Kuprianos, Peri ton 'Ell}: p. 111.

V

The above is a sketch of Thessalian affairs, including the incidents
connected with Jason, and those subsequent to his death, down to
the government of Tisiphonus. I now return to the point at which we
digressed.

B.C. 371. Archidamus, after the relief of the army defeated at Leuctra,
had led back the united forces. When he was gone, the Athenians,
impressed by the fact that the Peloponessians still felt under an
obligation to follow the Lacedaemonians to the field, whilst Sparta
herself was by no means as yet reduced to a condition resembling that
to which she had reduced Athens, sent invitations to those states which
cared to participate in the peace authorised by the great king. (1) A
congress met, and they passed a resolution in conjunction with those
who wished to make common cause with them to bind themselves by oath
as follows: "I will abide by the treaty terms as conveyed in the king's
rescript