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 KALLIKRATIDAS AS ADMIRAL. ] (Jl from Sparta to replace him His arrival was received with un disguised dissatisfaction by the leading Lacedaemonians in the armament, by the chiefs in the Asiatic cities, and by Cyrus. Now was felt the full influence of those factious correspondences and intrigues which Lysander had established with all of them, for indirectly working out the perpetuity of his own command. AVhile loud complaints were heard of the impolicy of Sparta, in annually changing her admiral, both Cyrus and the rest con- curred with Lysander in throwing difficulties in the way of the new successor. Kallikratidas, unfortunately only shown by the Fate:-, 1 and not suffered to continue in the Grecian world, was one of the noblest characters of his age. Besides perfect courage, energy, and in- corruptibility, he was distinguished for two qualities, both of them very rare among eminent Greeks ; entire straightforwardness of dealing, and a Pan-Hellenic patriotism alike comprehensive, exalted, and merciful. Lysander handed over to him nothing but an empty purse ; having repaid to Cyrus all the money remaining in his possession, under pretence that it had been con fided to himself personally. 2 Moreover, on delivering up the fleet to Kallikratidas at Ephesus, he made boast of delivering to him at the same time the mastery of the sea, through the victory recently gained at Notium. " Conduct the fleet from Ephesus along the coast of Samos, passing by the Athenian station (replied Kallikratidas), and give it up to me at Miletus : I shall then believe in your mastery of the sea." Lysander had nothing els* 1 Virgil, JEncid, vi, 870. Ostendent tcrris hunc tantum fata, ncquc ultra Esse sinent. crippling his successor, and not an act of genuine and conscientious obli- gation to Cyrus, as Mr. Mitford represents it, we may see by the conduct of Lysander at the close of the war. He then carried away with him to Sparta all the residue of the tributes from Cyrus which he had in his pos- =3'ljn, instead of giving them back to Cyrus (Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 3, 8) Th} obligation to give them back to Cyrus was greater at the end of th war than it was at the time when Kallikratidas came out, and when wai was still going on ; for the war was a joint business, which the Persians anrf the Spartans had sworn to prosecute by common efforts. VOL. VIII. HOC.
 * How completely this repayment was a manoeuvre for the purpose of