other book.

XVIII. From the proceeds of the plunder which he had taken Lysander
set up a brazen statue of himself and of each of the admirals[151] at
Delphi, and also offered up golden stars to the Dioskuri, which stars
disappeared just before the battle of Leuktra. Besides this, in the
treasury of Brasidas and the Akanthians there used to be a trireme
made of gold and ivory, two cubits long, which was sent to him by
Cyrus as a present on the occasion of his victory. Anaxandrides of
Delphi also tells us that Lysander deposited there a talent of silver,
fifty-two minae, and eleven of the coins called staters, which does not
agree with the accounts given by other writers of his poverty.

At this time Lysander was more powerful than any Greek had ever been
before, and displayed an amount of pride and arrogance beyond even
what his power warranted. He was the first Greek, we are told by
Douris in his history, to whom cities erected altars and offered
sacrifice as though he were a god, and he was the first in whose
honour paeans were sung, one of which is recorded as having begun as
follows:

"The praise of our fair Graecia's king
That comes from Sparta, let us sing,
Io paean."

Nay, the Samians decreed that their festival, called Heraea in honour
of Hera, should be called Lysandreia. He always kept the poet Choerilus
in his train, that he might celebrate his actions in verse, and when
Antilochus wrote some stanzas in his praise he was so pleased that he
filled his hat with silver and gave it to him. Antimachus of Kolophon
and one Nikeratus of Heraklea each wrote a poem on his deeds, and
competed before him for a prize, at the Lysandreia. He gave the crown
of victory to Nikeratus, which so enraged Antimachus that he
suppressed his poem. Plato, who was a young man at that time, and
admired the poetry of Antimachus, consoled him for his defeat by
pointing out to him that the illiterate are as much to be pitied for
their ignorance as the blind are for their loss of sight. When,
however, the harper Aristonous, who had six times won the victory at
the Pythian games, to show his regard to Lysander, told him that if he
won the prize again he intended to have his name proclaimed by the
herald as Lysander's servant, Lysander said, "Does he mean to proclaim
himself my slave?"

XIX. This ambition of Lysander was only a burden to the great, and to
those of equal rank with himself. But as no