person
Lysander of Sparta
Lysander
also: Lysander Lacedaemonius, Lysandrum
Spartan admiral and statesman (d. 395 BC), victor of the Peloponnesian War; in Cicero's anecdotes he marvels at Cyrus the Younger's garden and praises Sparta as the most honourable home for old age.
Reading notes
- On Duties §2.80 to expel the ephor Lysander
Lysander, the Spartan admiral who won the Peloponnesian War; here named as an ephor driven out amid the discord that Cicero says ruined Sparta. Sparta's collapse spread its evils through Greece.