general of the Athenians, had that command conferred upon him at 20 years of age, and became famous for the exactness of his military discipline. He made war on the Thracians; restored Senthes, who was an ally of the Athenians; attacked the Lacedaemonians; and, on many other occasions, gave signal proofs of his conduct and courage. Many ingenious repartees have been mentioned of this general: a man of good family with no other merit than his nobility, reproaching him one day for the meanness of his birth, he replied, "I shall be the first of my race, and thou the last of thine." He died 380 B.C.