Gylippus

, a Lacedæmonian sent, B.C. 414, by his countrymen to a ist Syracuse against the A then i ans. He obtained a celebrated victory over Nicias and Demosthenes, the enemy’s generals, and obliged them to surrender. He accompanied Lysander in his expedition against Athens, and was present at the taking of that celebrated town. After the fall of Athens, he was entrusted by the conqueror with the money which had been taken in the plunder, which amounted to 1500 talents. As he conveyed it to Sparta, he had the meanne to unsew the bottom of the bags which contained it, and secreted about 300 talents. His theft was discovered; and to avoid the punishment which he deserved, he fled from his country, and by this act of meanne tarnished the glory of his victorious actions. Tibullus , bk. 4 , poem 1, li. 199 .— Plutarch , Nicias .――An Arcadian in the Rutulian war. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 12 , li. 272 .