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INSOLENCE OF LYSANDER. 259 While the a/my was thus condemned to temporary inaction at Ephesus, the conduct and position of Lysander began to excite intolerable jealousy in the superior officers ; and most of all Age- eilaus. So great and established was the reputation of Lysander, - whose statue had been erected at Ephesus itself in the temple of Artemis, 1 as well as in many other cities, that all the Asiatic Greeks looked upon him as the real chief of the expedition. That he should be real chief, under the nominal command of another, was nothing more than what had happened before, in the year wherein he gained the great victory of .ZEgospotami, the Lace- dasmonians having then also sent him out in the ostensible capacity of secretary to the admiral Arakus, in order to save the inviola- bility of their own rule, that the same man should not serve twice as admiral. 2 It was through the instigation of Lysander, and with a view to his presence, that the decemvirs and other partisans in the subject cities had sent to Sparta to petition for Agesilaus ; a prince as yet untried and unknown. So that Lysander, taking credit, with truth, for having ensured to Agesilaus first the crown, next this important appointment, intended for himself, and was expected by others, to exercise a fresh turn of command, and to renovate in every town the discomfited or enfeebled dekarchies. Numbers of his partisans came to Ephesus to greet his arrival, and a crowd of petitioners were seen following his steps every- where ; while Agesilaus himself appeared comparatively neglected. Moreover, Lysander resumed all that insolence of manner which he had contracted during his former commands, and which on this occasion gave the greater offence, since the manner of Agesilaus was both courteous and simple in a peculiar degree. 3 The thirty Spartan counsellors, over whom Lysander had been named to preside, finding themselves neither consulted by him, nor solicited by others, were deeply dissatisfied. Their complaints former armistice of Derkyllidas had probably not expired when Agesilaus flrst arrived. 1 Pausan. vi, 3, 6. 2 Xen. Hellen. ii, 1, 7. This rule does not seem to have been adhered to afterwards. Lysander was sent out again as commandei in 403 B. c. It ia possible, indeed, that he may have been again sent out as nominal secretary to some other person named as commander. 3 Plutarch, Agesilaus, c. 7.