The Inefficiency of the Union

The more powerful members tyrannized successively over all the rest. Athens, as we learn from Demosthenes, was the arbiter of Greece 73 years. The Lassa de Monions next governed it 29 years. At a subsequent period, after the Battle of Lutra, the Thebans had their turn of domination. It happened but too often, according to Plutarch, that the deputies of the strongest cities awed and corrupted those of the weaker.