[59] Again, I must set forth how these two cities demeaned themselves toward the barbarians;[66] for this still remains to be done. In the time of our supremacy, the barbarians were prevented from marching with an army beyond the Halys river[67] and from sailing with their ships of war this side of Phaselis,[68] but under the hegemony of the Lacedaemonians not only did they gain the freedom to march and sail wherever they pleased, but they even became masters over many Hellenic states.