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Excerpt from The History of Greece, Vol. 2 of 2 Hen Lysander had demolished the walls and fortifications of Athens, it still te mained for him to reduce the island of Samos, which was honour-ably distinguished by its being the last settlement in the east that opposed the o ambition of Pericles, and was now the last which submitted to the arms of Lysander. The Spar tan government, with an unaccountable infatua fion, ruled the islands and cities that voluntarily accepted the yoke, or reluctantly surrendered to the power of Lacedaemon, in an equally arbitrary and tyrannical manner. In every place there existed some hostile factions, which danger or ambition had fostered, and the party that seemed to possess most craft and least patriotism, was always preferred by Lysander. Over the cabal which thus appeared likely to favour the views and the interest of Sparta, he placed a Lacedze monian governor, on whose severity to the sub. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.