[Footnote 146: A Persian gold coin, first coined by Darius the son of
Hystaspes, worth £1 1s. 10d. English money.]
[Footnote 147: All ancient ships were managed with two rudders.]
[Footnote 148: Alluding to the cruelties practised by Philokles on the
Andrians and Corinthians, and the decree for the mutilation of the
captives, of which Philokles was the author.]
[Footnote 149: Golden crowns, at this period of Greek history, was the
name applied to large sums of money voted by cities to men whose
favour they hoped to gain.]
[Footnote 150: A spit is called obelus in Greek.]
[Footnote 151: Probably of each of the Spartan admirals who had
commanded during the war. It should be remembered that Lysander was
nominally admiral when he won the battle of Ægospotami.]
[Footnote 152: The Greek word probably means papyrus. Clough
translates it "parchment."--cf. Aulus Gellius, xvii. 9.]
[Footnote 153: Ulysses.]
[Footnote 154: An Egyptian divinity, represented with ram's horns, and
identified by the Romans with Jupiter, and by the Greeks with Zeus. He
possessed a celebrated temple and oracle in the oasis of Ammonium
(_Siwah_) in the Libyan desert.--Smith's _Classical Dict._ s.v.]
[Footnote 155: Megara was always treated by the Greeks with the utmost
contempt, as possessing no importance, political or otherwise.]
[Footnote 156: Agesilaus offered sacrifice at Aulis, in imitation of
Agamemnon, before starting for Asia. But before he had completed the
rite, the Bœotarchs sent a party of horse to enjoin him to desist, and
the men did not merely deliver the message, but scattered the parts of
the victim which they found on the altar.--Thirlwall's _History of
Greece_, ch. xxxv.]
[Footnote 157: The name of this fountain should probably be corrected
from Strabo and Pausanias, and read Tilphusa, or
Tilphosa,--_Langhorne_.]
[Footnote 158: Strabo tells us, Haliartus was destroyed by the Romans
in the war with Perseus. He also mentions a lake near it, which
produces canes or reeds, not for shafts of javelins, but for pipes or
flutes. Compare Plutarch's Life of Sulla, ch. xx. _ad fin_.]
[Footnote 159: The Greeks attached great importance to the burial of
the dead, and after a battle, that party which demanded a truce for
collecting and burying its dead was thought to have admitted itself to
have been defeated. Naturally, therefore, the proposal was regarded as
humiliating by the Spartans of 395 B.C.]
[Footnote 160: It should be remembered that Chæronea was Plutarch's
own city, and that he was a priest at Delphi, and, consequently, was
especially familiar with the country here described.]
[Footnote 161: _Hoplites_, in Greek, usually means a warrior fully
armed.]