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at law against men who did not marry, or who married too late in life or unbecomingly: under which last head came those who tried to marry into rich families, instead of marrying persons of good birth and their own friends. This is what we have found to tell about the life of Lysander. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 146: A Persian gold coin, first coined by Darius the son of Hystaspes, worth L1 1s. 10d. English money.] [Footnote 147: All ancient ships were managed with two rudders.] [Footnote 148: Alluding to the cruelties practised by Philokles on the Andrians and Corinthians, and the decree for the mutilation of the captives, of which Philokles was the author.] [Footnote 149: Golden crowns, at this period of Greek history, was the name applied to large sums of money voted by cities to men whose favour they hoped to gain.] [Footnote 150: A spit is called obelus in Greek.] [Footnote 151: Probably of each of the Spartan admirals who had commanded during the war. It should be remembered that Lysander was nominally admiral when he won the battle of AEgospotami.] [Footnote 152: The Greek word probably means papyrus. Clough translates it "parchment."--cf. Aulus Gellius, xvii. 9.] [Footnote 153: Ulysses.] [Footnote 154: An Egyptian divinity, represented with ram's horns, and identified by the Romans with Jupiter, and by the Greeks with Zeus. He possessed a celebrated temple and oracle in the oasis of Ammonium (_Siwah_) in the Libyan desert.--Smith's _Classical Dict._ s.v.] [Footnote 155: Megara was always treated by the Greeks with the utmost contempt, as possessing no importance, political or otherwise.] [Footnote 156: Agesilaus offered sacrifice at Aulis, in imitation of Agamemnon, before starting for Asia. But before he had completed the rite, the Boeotarchs sent a party of horse to enjoin him to desist, and the men did not merely deliver the message, but scattered the parts of the victim which they found on the altar.--Thirlwall's _History of Greece_, ch. xxxv.] [Footnote 157: The name of this fountain should probably be corrected from Strabo and Pausanias, and read Tilphusa, or Tilphosa,--_Langhorne_.] [Footnote 158: Strabo tells us, Haliartus was destroyed by the Romans in the war with Perseus. He also mentions a lake near it, which produces canes or reeds, not for shafts of javelins, but for pipes or flutes. Compare Plutarch's Life of Sulla, ch. xx. _ad fin_.] [Footnote 159: The Greeks attached
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