THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

SECOND CIVIL WAR 147
funds that might be left over, they determined to hold
in reserve.
For the disappointed chieftains and primates,
this put the coping-stone on the edifice of the
misdeeds of the Government. 1
Konduriottes had used
his powers as President throughout to favour the islanders
at the expense of the other Hellenes; he had
thrust his friends, the Hydriot sea captains,
the most important military and civil commands ;
into all
and
now the pure stream of British gold was to flow into
the same dirty channel !
This was more than the disinterested
patriotism of the Moreot primates and the
Klephts
of the mainland could stand.
Furious with
jealous rage and disappointed greed, they retired, with
their bands of armed followers, from ISTauplia.
Odysseus
was the first to leave. Kolokotrones followed,
and with him went the Moreot primates, who, in the
last civil war, had been his main opponents: Sissinis
of Gastuni, the great landowner of Elis, who lived
upon his estates with more than feudal splendour: 2
Londos, the friend of Byron, whose influence was paramount
in Achaia: and Zaimis, who could always
reckon on the support of a large part of Arcadia.
1 Prokesch, i. 295.
2 See Finlay,
ii. 35. The peasants had to fall on their
knees whenever they addressed him, even in reply to a
simple question.