Thrasybūlus

, a famous general of Athens, who began the expulsion of the 30 tyrants of his country, though he was only a isted by 30 of his friends. His efforts were attended with succe , B.C. 401, and the only reward he received for this patriotic action was a crown made with two twigs of an olive branch; a proof of his own disinterestedne and of the virtues of his countrymen. The A then i ans employed a man whose abilities and humanity were so ♦ conspicuous, and Thrasybulus was sent with a powerful fleet to recover their lost power in the Ægean, and on the coast of Asia. After he had gained many advantages, this great man was killed in his camp by the inhabitants of A spend us, whom his soldiers had plundered without his knowledge, B.C. 391. Diodorus , bk. 14 .— Cornel i us Nepos , Lives. — Cicero. — Phi lost ratus. — Valerius Maximus , bk. 4 , ch. 1 .――A tyrant of Miletus, B.C. 634.――A soothsayer descended from Apollo. Pausanias , bk. 6 , ch. 2 .――A son of Gelon, banished from Syracuse, of which he was the tyrant, B.C. 466.――An A then i an in the army of the Persians, who supported the siege of Halicarna us. ♦ ‘conspicious’ replaced with ‘conspicuous’