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LYSANDER: the great commander who in 405 B.C. won the battle of Aegospotamos against the Athenians. SARDIS: acc. pl.; -is represents Gk. -εις. CONSAEPTUM AGRUM: 'park'; the phrase is a translation of Xenophon's παραδεισον; this will account for the omission of et before diligenter consitum. DILIGENTER: 'carefully'. PROCERITATES: the plural probably indicates the height of each kind of tree.
Cyrus the Younger is sent by the king of Persia to take the government of all the maritime parts of Asia Minor, and with orders to help the Lacedaemonian fleet against the Athenian. Agrigentum taken by the Carthaginians. The last Athenian fleet destroyed by Lysander at AEgospotamos. Athens closely besieged. Rise of the power of Dionysius at Syracuse. Athens surrenders.
Her commercial duties her tax on settlers the harvest of judicial fees, obtained from the dependant allies the chief profits from the mines all rested upon the maintenance of peace: even the foreign tribute, the most productive of the Athenian resources, might fail at once, if the Athenian arms should sustain a single reverse, as indeed it did after the fatal battle of Aegospotamos . This it was which might have shown to the great finance minister that peace with the Peloponnesus could scarce be too dearly purchased . The surrender of a few towns and fortresses was nothing in comparison with the arrest and paralysis of all the springs of her wealth, which would be the necessary result of a long war upon her own soil.
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