d together, and found no traces of fire, but merely a stone
lying on the ground, which although a large one, bore no comparison to
that fiery mass. It is evident that this tale of Daimachus can only
find credit with indulgent readers: but if it be true, it signally
confutes those who argue that the stone was wrenched by the force of a
whirlwind from some high cliff, carried up high into the air, and then
let fall whenever the violence of the tempest abated. Unless, indeed,
that which was seen for so many days was really fire, which, when
quenched, produced such a violent rushing and motion in the air as
tore the stone from its place. A more exact enquiry into these
matters, however, belongs to another subject.

XIII. Now Lysander, after the three thousand Athenians whom he had
taken prisoners had been condemned to death by the council, called
for Philokles their general, and asked him what punishment he thought
that he deserved for having advised his fellow-countrymen to treat
Greeks in such a cruel manner.[148] Philokles, not in the least cast
down by his misfortunes, bade him not to raise questions which no one
could decide, but, since he was victor, to do what he would himself
have suffered if vanquished. He then bathed, put on a splendid dress,
and led his countrymen to execution, according to the account given by
Theophrastus. After this Lysander sailed to the various cities in the
neighbourhood, and compelled all the Athenians whom he met to betake
themselves to Athens, giving out that he would spare no one, but put
to death all whom he found without the city. His object in acting thus
was to produce famine in Athens as speedily as possible, that the city
might not give him the trouble of a long siege. He now destroyed the
democratic and popular constitutions in all the Greek cities which had
been subject to Athens, placing a Lacedaemonian in each as harmost or
governor, with a council of ten archons under him, composed of men
selected from the political clubs which he had established. He
proceeded leisurely along, effecting these changes alike in the cities
which had been hostile to him and in those which had fought on his
side, as though he were preparing for himself a Greece in which he
would take the first place. He did not choose his archons by their
birth, or their wealth, but favoured his own friends and political
adherents, to whom he gave irresponsible power; while by being present
at several executions,