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 4 HISTORY OF GREECE. pbcrnos satrap in the year 413 B. c., commencing operation^ jointly with the Spartans, for detaching the Asiatic allies from Athens, after her reverses in Sicily ; and employing the Spartans successfully against Amorges, the revolted son of Pissuthnes, who occupied the strong maritime town of lasus. 1 The increased vigor of Persian operations against Athens, after Cyrus, the younger son of Darius Nothus, came down to the Ionic coast hi 407 B. C., has been recounted in my preceding volume ; together with the complete prostration of Athenian power, accom- plished during the ensuing three years. Residing at Sardis and placed hi active cooperation with Greeks, this ambitious and ener- getic young prince soon became penetrated with their superior military and political efficiency, as compared with the native Asi- atics. For the abilities and character of Lysander, the Pelopon- nesian admiral, he contracted so much admiration, that, when summoned to court during the last illness of his father Darius hi 405 B. c., he even confided to that officer the. whole of his tribute and treasure, to be administered hi furtherance of the war ; 2 which during his absence was brought to a victorious close. Cyrus, born after the accession of his father to the throne, was not more than eighteen years of age when first sent down to Sardis (hi 407 B. c.) as satrap of Lydia, Phrygia, and Kappadokia, and as commander of that Persian military division which mustered at the plain of Kastolus ; a command not including the Ionic Greeks on the seaboard, who were under the satrapy of Tissaphernes. 3 We cannot place much confidence hi the account which Xenophon gives of his education ; that he had been brought up with his brother and many noble Persian youths hi the royal palace, under the strictest discipline and restraint, enforcing modest habits, with the reciprocal duties of obedience and command, upon all of them, and upon him with peculiar success. 4 It is contradicted by ah 1 the realities which we read about the Persian court, and is A patch of Grecian rather than of Oriental sentiment, better suited to the romance of the Cyropasdia that to the history of the Anab- asis. But in the Persian accomplishments of horsemanship, 1 Thucyd. viii, 28. See Vol. VII, ch. Ixi, p. 389 of this History. 4 Xen. Anab. i, 9, 3-5. Compare Cyropjedia, i, 2, 4-6 ; viii, 1, 16, etc
 * Xen. Hellen. ii, 1, 14. Compare Xen. (Econom. iv, 20.
 * Xen. Anab. i, 1, 2 ; i, 9, 7 ; Xen. Hellen. i, 4, 3.