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, a famous general of Athens, son of Timotheus. He was made governor of all the islands of the A then i ans, and was defeated in a naval battle by Lysander, near the Ægospotamos. He retired in voluntary banishment to Evagoras king of Cyprus, and afterwards to Artaxerxes king of Persia, by whose a istance he freed his country from slavery. He defeated the Spartans near Cnidos, in an engagement, where Pisander, the enemy’s admiral, was killed. By his means the A then i ans fortified their city with a strong wall, and attempted to recover Ionia and Æolia. He was perfidiously betrayed by a Persian, and died in prison, B.C. 393. Cornel i us Nepos , De Viris Illustribus .— Plutarch , Lysander & Artaxerxes .— I so crates. ――A Greek astronomer of Samos, who, to gain the favour of Ptolemy Evergetes, publicly declared that the queen’s locks, which had been dedicated in the temple of Venus, and had since disappeared, were become a constellation. He was intimate with Arch i me des, and flourished 247 B.C. Catullus , poem 67.— Virgil , Eclogues , poem 3, li. 40 .――A Grecian mythologist in the age of Julius Cæsar, who wrote a book which contained 40 fables, still extant, preserved by Photius.――There was a treatise written on Italy by a man of the same name.