Indignant at the proposal of the satrap, that brave people recurred no more to the thought of the alliance.

In haughty patience, unassisted and alone, they awaited the burst of the tempest which they foresaw.
XIV.

Meanwhile, Cleomenes, chafed at the failure of his attempt on the Athenian liberties, and conceiving, in the true spirit of injustice, that he had been rather the aggrieved than the aggressor, levied forces in different parts of the Peloponnesus, but without divulging the object he had in view [254].

That object was twofold-- vengeance upon Athens, and the restoration of Isagoras.

At length he threw off the mask, and at the head of a considerable force seized upon the holy city of Eleusis.