. . "You, whoso carefully guard against the intrusion of tyranny in Sparta--had youknown it as we have done, you would be better sensible of thecalamities it entails: listen to some of its effects. (Here theambassador related at length the cruelties of Periander, the tyrant ofCorinth.) Such, said he, in conclusion, \"such is a tyrannicalgovernment--such its effects." . . .