s soon as he reached Sparta, he would do all in his
power to make peace between the Greek states, in order that they might
be feared by the barbarians, and might no longer be obliged to beg the
Persians to help them to destroy one another.

VII. But Kallikratidas, whose ideas were so noble and worthy of a
Spartan, being as brave, honourable, and just a man as ever lived,
perished shortly afterwards in the sea-fight at Arginusae. Upon this,
as the Lacedaemonian cause was going to ruin, the allied cities sent an
embassy to Sparta, begging for Lysander to be again given the chief
command, and promising that they would carry on the war with much
greater vigour if he were their leader. Cyrus also sent letters to the
same effect. Now as the Spartan law forbids the same man being twice
appointed admiral, the Lacedaemonians, wishing to please their allies,
gave the chief command nominally to one Arakus, but sent Lysander with
him, with the title of secretary, but really with full power and
authority. He was very welcome to the chief men in the various cities,
who imagined that by his means they would be able to obtain much
greater power, and to put down democracy throughout Asia; but those
who loved plain and honourable dealing in a general thought that
Lysander, when compared with Kallikratidas, appeared to be a crafty,
deceitful man, conducting the war chiefly by subtilty and stratagem,
using honourable means when it was his interest to do so, at other
times acting simply on the rules of expediency, and not holding truth
to be in itself superior to falsehood, but measuring the value of the
one and the other by the profit which was to be obtained from them. He
indeed laughed at those who said that the race of Herakles ought not
to make wars by stratagem, saying, "Where the lion's skin will not
protect us, we must sew the fox's skin to it."

VIII. All this is borne out by what he is said to have done at
Miletus. Here his friends and connections, to whom he had promised
that he would put down the democratic constitution and drive their
enemies out of the city, changed their minds, and made up their
quarrel with their political opponents. At this reconciliation
Lysander publicly expressed great satisfaction and even seemed anxious
to promote a good understanding, but in private he railed at them and
urged them to attack the popular party. But as soon as he heard of an
outbreak having taken place, he at once marched into the city