father Darius as satrap of
Lydia, Phrygia, and Cappadocia, and whose command in Asia Minor was
attended by important consequences. Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus were
still left in command of the coast.

(M562) Cyrus, a man of great ambition and self-control, came to Asia Minor
with a fixed purpose of putting down the Athenian power, which for sixty
years had humbled the pride of the Persian kings. He formed a hearty and
cordial alliance with Lysander, the Spartan admiral, and the most eminent
man, after Brasidas, whom the Lacedaemonians had produced during the war.
He was a man of severe Spartan discipline and virtue, but ambitious and
cruel. He visited Cyrus at Sardis, was welcomed with every mark of favor,
and induced Cyrus to grant additional pay to every Spartan seaman.

(M563) Meanwhile Alcibiades re-entered his native city in triumph, after
eight years' exile, and was welcomed by all parties as the only man who
had sufficient capacity to restore the fallen fortunes of Athens. His
confiscated property was restored, and he was made captain-general with
ample powers, while all his treasons were apparently forgotten, which had
proved so fatal to his country--the sending of Gylippus to Syracuse, the
revolt of Chios and Miletus, and the conspiracy of the Four Hundred. The
effect of this treatment, so much better than what he deserved,
intoxicated this wayward and unprincipled, but exceedingly able man. His
first exploit was to sail to Andros, now under a Lacedaemonian garrison,
whose fields he devastated, but was unable to take the town. He then went
to Samos, and there learned that all his intrigues with Persia had failed,
and that Persia was allied still more strongly with the Lacedaemonians
under Lysander.

(M564) This great general, now at Ephesus, pursued a cautious policy, and
refused to give battle to the Athenian forces under Alcibiades, who then
retired to Phocaea, leaving his fleet under the command of Antiochus, his
favorite pilot. Antiochus, in the absence of his general, engaged the
Lacedaemonian fleet, but was defeated and slain at Notium. The conduct of
Alcibiades produced great disaffection at Athens. He had sailed with a
fleet not inferior to that which he commanded at Syracuse, and had made
great promises of future achievements, yet in three months he had not
gained a single success. He was therefore dismissed from his command,
which was given to ten generals, of whom Conon was the most eminent, while