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the renowned Athenian general and admiral, flourished 394 years before Christ. See Attica, n° 162, 163. After his defeat by Lysander, he fled to Evagoras king of Cyprus; after which he put himself under the protection of Artaxerxes king of Persia; with whose army he delivered Athens from the oppression of strangers, and rebuilt its walls. In the 360th year of Rome, he beat the Lacedemonians in a sea-fight near Cnidus upon the coast of Asia, deprived them of the sovereign rule they had on sea ever since the taking of Athens, and had some other considerable advantages over them; but falling into the hands of Teribazus a Persian, who envied his glory, he was put to death.