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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t a request which brought an order toPharnabazus, a satrap of Artaxerxes, to put Alcibiades to death. His castle inPhrygia was surrounded and set on fire, and while trying to escape from theflames he was pierced to death by a shower of arrows. Thus died Alcibiadesin B.C. 404, in the forty-fifth year of his age. Meanwhile the Spartan Lysander had inflicted another and final defeat uponthe Athenians. While they were engaged in ravaging Chios, they learned thatLysander had begun the siege of Lamsacus, and they immediately sailed for theHellespont, arriving too late to save the town, but they moved up the strait andtook post at yEgos Potamos, or Goats River (b.c. 405). The position wasa bad one in every respect, it being so difficult to obtain supplies that the sea-men were obliged to leave their ships to procure their meals. Naturally theAthenians were eager to bring Lysander to an engagement, but since he hadan excellent position and an abundance of provisions, he chose to await his own
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Greece—Surrender of Athens 227 convenience. He refused so persistently to come out and fight that the Athe-nians looked upon his conduct as cowardice, and became negligent. This was what the wily Spartan admiral Lysander was waiting for, andwhen his opportunity came, he passed swiftly across the strait with his ships.Of the one hundred and eighty Athenian vessels no more than a dozen wereprepared for attack, and he captured all the rest without striking a blow. Amongthose that escaped was the trireme of Conon, the Athenian commander, who,afraid to return to Athens after such shameless incompetency, took refuge withthe prince of Salamis in Cyprus. All the Athenian prisoners, numberingnearly four thousand, were put to death, in retaliation for the cruelty perpetratedupon Spartan captives. A shameful feature of this crowning disgrace was thatit was aided by the connivance of some of the Athenian generals, a number ofwhom were always open to corruption and bribery. This overwhelming dis

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