11.6
Lysander took three thousand men prisoners, together with their generals, and captured the whole fleet, excepting the ParalusOne of the sacred state-galleys. It now carried the news of the disaster to Athens (Xen. Hell. 2.1.28). and the ships that had made their escape with Conon. So after plundering his enemy’s camp and taking their ships in tow, he sailed back to Lampsacus, to the sound of pipes and hymns of victory. He had wrought a work of the greatest magnitude with the least toil and effort, and had brought to a close in a single hour a war which, in length, and the incredible variety of its incidents and fortunes, surpassed all its predecessors.
11.7
Its struggles and issues had assumed ten thousand changing shapes, and it had cost Hellas more generals than all her previous wars together, and yet it was brought to a close by the prudence and ability of one man. Therefore some actually thought the result due to divine intervention.
12.1
There were some who declared that the DioscuriCastor and Pollux. appeared as twin stars on either side of Lysander’s ship just as he was sailing out of the harbor against the enemy, and shone out over the rudder-sweeps. And some say also that the falling of the stone was a portent of this disaster; for according to the common belief, a stone of vast size had fallen from heaven at Aegospotami,In 468-7 B.C., according to the Parian marble (ep. 57) and Pliny NH 2.149 f.
