Cypselus was succeeded by the celebrated Heriander (B.C.

625), a man, whose vices were perhaps exaggerated, whose genius was indisputable.

Under his nephew Psammetichus, Corinth afterward regained its freedom.

The Corinthians, in spite of every change in the population, retained their luxury to the last, and the epistles of Alciphron, in the second century after Christ, note the ostentation of the few and the poverty of the many.

At the time now referred to, Corinth--the Genoa of Greece--was high in civilization, possessed of a considerable naval power, and in art and commerce was the sole rival on the Grecian continent to the graceful genius and extensive trade of the Ionian colonies.
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