readily believe, as it is told us by a historian who is more prone to censure than to admiration.  In later times we learn from the historian Ephorus that some dispute arose between the allied cities which rendered it necessary to examine Lysander’s papers, and that Agesilaus went to his house for this purpose.  Here he found the scroll upon which was written the speech about altering the constitution; advising the Spartans to abolish the hereditary right to the throne enjoyed by the old royal families of Eurypon and Agis, and to throw it open to the best of the citizens without restriction.  Agesilaus was eager to publish this speech abroad, and show his fellow-countrymen what sort of a man Lysander had really been; but Lakratides, a wise man, who was at that time chief of the board of Ephors, restrained him, pointing out that it would be wrong to disturb Lysander in his grave, and that it would be better that so clever and insidious a composition should be buried with him.  Among other honours which were paid to Lysander after death, the Spartans fined the suitors of his daughters, because when after his death his poverty was discovered, they refused to marry them, thus showing that they had paid their court to him when they believed him to be rich, and neglected him when his poverty proved him to have been just and honourable.  It appears that in Sparta there were actions at law against men who did not marry, or who married too late in life or unbecomingly:  under which last head came those who tried to marry into rich families, instead of marrying persons of good birth and their own friends.  This is what we have found to tell about the life of Lysander.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 146:  A Persian gold coin, first coined by Darius the son of Hystaspes, worth L1 1s. 10d.  English money.]

[Footnote 147:  All ancient ships were managed with two rudders.]

[Footnote 148:  Alluding to the cruelties practised by Philokles on the Andrians and Corinthians, and the decree for the mutilation of the captives, of which Philokles was the author.]

[Footnote 149:  Golden crowns, at this period of Greek history, was the name applied to large sums of money voted by cities to men whose favour they hoped to gain.]

[Footnote 150:  A spit is called obelus in Greek.]

[Footnote 151:  Probably of each of the Spartan admirals who had commanded during the war.  It should be remembered that Lysander was nominally admiral when he won the battle of AEgospotami.]

[Footnote 152:  The Greek word probably means papyrus.  Clough translates it “parchment.”—­cf.  Aulus Gellius, xvii. 9.]

[Footnote 153:  Ulysses.]

[Footnote 154:  An Egyptian divinity, represented with ram’s horns, and identified by the Romans with Jupiter, and by the Greeks with Zeus.  He possessed a celebrated temple and oracle in the oasis of Ammonium (Siwah) in the Libyan desert.—­Smith’s Classical Dict. s.v.]