Under the dominion of the Roman republic its national league was dissolved, but was revived by Augustus, who also restored to Phocis the votes in the Delphic Amphictyony which it had lost in 346 and enrolled it in the new Achaean synod.
Membership of the National League is, in many cases, as necessary a protection as ever was a certificate of civism under Robespierre.
The Irish National League was, however, founded October to take up the work of the defunct Land League, and the country continued to be disturbed.
The law was paralysed, for no jury could be trusted to convict even on the clearest evidence, and the National League branches assumed judicial functions.
The Unionists of Ireland had been taken by surprise, and out of Ulster they had no organization capable of opposing the National League and the government combined.
