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Lysander   /lˌaɪsˈændər/   Listen
Lysander

noun
1.
Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC).





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"Lysander" Quotes from Famous Books



... ulterioris amore." The shade of Patroclus describes its hapless state to Achilles, as does that of Elpenor to Odysseus, when they meet in the lower world. It is not surprising that the ancients attached the highest importance to the duty of burying the dead, and that Pausanias blames Lysander for not burying the bodies of Philocles and the four thousand slain at AEgospotami, seeing that the Athenians even buried ...
— Greek and Roman Ghost Stories • Lacy Collison-Morley


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