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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 5 of 10 Afier loose all by land alto: Alcibiades returning febmhiaexiletodal again inmatterioftheetane, made an exceeding great change and alteration, forheaettlteatheniamatl'oatagain, aode at strong by sea at thelaeedzmonizfim: thereupon began to quake for fear, and to look eftsoono for a fresh war, perceiving that they in need of a greater power, and of a hem captain than ever they lad before. Wherengon they made Lysander their admiral, who arrinn in the city of [3t found them very wefi aeected towards hunt, and marvellous willing and ready to take the Laoedaemonians' pert: howbeit Otherwise in very poor state, and ready almost to take up all the barbarous manners and fashion: of the Persians, because they did continually frequent them, being environed round about with the country of Lydia, where the king of Perria'r captains were ever resident. Wherefore, having planted his camp there, he brought thither merchants' ships out of all parts, and set up an arsenal or storehouse to build galleyt in to that in short space, by oft course of merchants that began to trade thither, he quickened their havens, and set up their staple again for the traffic of merchandise, and filled every private artificer'n house with an honest trade to make them rich hyyeo that everafter it grew in continual hope to come onto that ourishing etate and greatness, in the which we see it at this pee eent. F nrthermore, Lysander being advertised that Cyrus, one of the-great king of Persia's cone, was come unto the city of Sardis, he went thither to. 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 orig