Lys. 1.1Lȳsander Lacedaemonius magnam relīquit suī fāmam, magis fēlīcitāte quam virtūte partam: Athēniēnsēs enim adversus Peloponnēsiōs bellum gerentēs sextō et vīcēsimō annō cōnfēcisse appāret, neque id quā ratiōne cōnsecūtus sit latet: nōn enim virtūte suī exercitūs, sed immodestiā factum est adversāriōrum, quī, quod dictō audientēs imperātōribus suīs nōn erant, dispālātī in agrīs relictīs nāvibus in hostium vēnērunt potestātem.Lysander the Spartan left a great reputation behind him, won more by good fortune than by merit: for it is clear that he finished off the Athenians, who were waging war against the Peloponnesians, in the twenty-sixth year, nor is it unknown how he achieved this: for it was done not by the valour of his own army but by the indiscipline of his opponents, who, because they did not obey their commanders, scattered over the fields, leaving their ships, and fell into the enemy's power. Lys. 1.2Quō factō Athēniēnsēs sē Lacedaemoniīs dēdidērunt.After this the Athenians surrendered to the Spartans. Lys. 1.3Hāc victōriā Lȳsander ēlātus, cum anteā semper factiōsus audāxque fuisset, sīc sibi indulsit, ut eius operā in maximum odium Graeciae Lacedaemoniī pervēnerint.Elated by this victory, Lysander, who had always before been factious and bold, indulged himself so far that through his doing the Spartans came to be utterly hated by Greece.
Lys. 1.4Nam cum hanc causam Lacedaemoniī dictitāssent sibi esse bellī, ut Athēniēnsium impotentem dominātiōnem refringerent, postquam apud Aegos flūmen Lȳsander classis hostium est potītus, nihil aliud mōlītus est quam ut omnēs cīvitātēs in suā tenēret potestāte, cum id sē Lacedaemoniōrum causā facere simulāret.For though the Spartans had kept saying that their reason for the war was to break the unbridled domination of the Athenians, after Lysander had taken possession of the enemy fleet at Aegospotami, he aimed at nothing else than to hold all the states in his own power, while pretending to do this for the Spartans' sake. Lys. 1.5Namque undique, quī Athēniēnsium rēbus studuissent, ēiectīs decem dēlēgerat in ūnā quāque cīvitāte, quibus summum imperium potestātemque omnium rērum committeret.For everywhere he had driven out those who had favoured the Athenian cause, and had chosen ten men in each state to whom he would entrust supreme command and power over all affairs. Lys. 1.5Hōrum in numerum nēmō admittēbātur, nisi quī aut eius hospitiō continērētur aut sē illīus fore proprium fidē cōnfirmārat.No one was admitted to their number unless he was either bound to him by ties of hospitality or had pledged his word that he would be wholly his.