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 CYRUS AND LYSANDER. fclJ whither he chose, without the necessity of dispersing it in roving squadrons for the purpose of levying money. It is probably from a corresponding necessity that we are to explain the inaction of the Athenian fleet at Saraos ; for we hear of no serious opera- tions undertaken by it, during the whole year following the victory of Arginusse, although under the command of an able and energetic man, Konon, together with Fhilokles and Adeiman- tus ; to whom were added, during the spring of 405 B.C., three other generals, Tydeus, Menander, and Kephisodotus. It appears that Theramenes also was put up and elected one of the generals, but rejected when submitted to the confirmatory examination called the dokimasy. 1 The fleet comprised one hundred and eighty triremes, rather a greater number than that of Lysander ; to whom they in vain offered battle near his station at Ephesus. Finding him not disposed to a general action, they seeni to have dispersed to plunder Chios, and various portions of the Asiatic coast ; while Lysander, keeping his fleet together, first sailed southward from Ephesus, stormed and plundered a semi-Hellenic town in the Kerameikan gulf, named Kedreire, which was in alliance with Athens, and thence proceeded to Rhodes. 2 He was even bold enough to make an excursion across the JEgean to the coast of JEgina and Attica, where he had an interview with Agis, who came from Dekeleia to the sea-coast. 3 The Athenians were prepared to follow him thither when they learned that he had recrossed the jJEgean, and he soon afterwards appeared with all his fleet at the Hellespont, which important pass they had left unguarded. Lysander went straight to Abydos, still the great Peloponnesian station in the strait, occupied by Thorax as harmost with a land force ; and immediately proceeded to attack, both by sea and land, the neighboring town of Lampsakus, which was taken by storm. It was wealthy in every way, and abun- dantly stocked with bread and wine, so that the soldiers obtained a large booty ; but Lysander left the free inhabitants untouched. 4 ' Lysias, Orat. xiii, cont. Agorat. sect. 13. and yTSgina is not noticed by Xenophon, but it appears both In Diodorus and in Plutarch (Diodor. xiii, 104 : Plutarch, Lysand. c. 9). 4 Xcncph. Hellcn. ii. 1 18 19; Di<lor. xiii, 104 -Plutarch, Lysand c 8
 * Xeiioph. Ilcllcn. ii, 1, 15, 16.
 * This flying visit of Lysander across the jEgean to the coasts of Attica