. The captains of the Old world : as compared with the great modern strategists, their campaigns, characters and conduct, from the Persian, to the Punic Wars. tage of hfe at abusy and eventful period, both for his native city, and for theworld at large—for it was in the second year of the eighty-thirdOlympiad, corresponding to four hundred and forty-five ,in the Archonship of Timarchides—the same year in which,after all the district of Attika had been devastated by the Lake-daimonians, and the city of Chaironeia fruitlessly captured bytheir own general Tolmides, who was afterwards defeated
. The captains of the Old world : as compared with the great modern strategists, their campaigns, characters and conduct, from the Persian, to the Punic Wars. tage of hfe at abusy and eventful period, both for his native city, and for theworld at large—for it was in the second year of the eighty-thirdOlympiad, corresponding to four hundred and forty-five ,in the Archonship of Timarchides—the same year in which,after all the district of Attika had been devastated by the Lake-daimonians, and the city of Chaironeia fruitlessly captured bytheir own general Tolmides, who was afterwards defeated withthe loss of his whole army, and himself slain at Koroneia, theAthenians were compelled to liberate all the cities they hadgained in Boiotia, in order to procure the release of their ownprisoners from the hands of the Thebans—that he first saw thelight. His fathers name was Gryllos; but little is known eitherof his family, or of his early years; beyond this, that while avery young man his personal beauty recommended him to So-crates, of whom he became perhaps the most favorite anddistinguished pupil, certainly one of the very few, who neither. HIS EARLY YEARS. l73 disgiaced tiie name and tenets of their preceptor by tlie grossnessand immorality of their private lives, nor turned the professionof philosophy into sordid money-making charlatanry ; for he,at least, used it rather as the daily guide and measure of anhonorable, upright, and useful life, than as the means of dishonestprofit, or the badge of vanity and arrogance. A truce of thirty yeai*s was signed, on the year of Xenophonsbirth, between the Athenians and Lakedaimonians ; and so muchwere the former depressed by the results of the battle ofKoroneia, that they moved but httle in the pubhc affairs ofGreece for a considerable space of time ; until, in the fii-st yearof the eighty-seventh Olympiad,* they became involved in aquarrel between the Korinthians and Kerkuraians, in the courseof which they soon came to ac
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