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Comparison of Lysander and Sulla (3.1)

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Still further, in their pursuit of riches and pleasures we discover that the purpose of one was more befitting a commander, that of the other more characteristic of a tyrant. For Lysander appears to have perpetrated no act of wantonness or youthful folly while he enjoyed such great authority and power, nay, if ever man did, he avoided the praise and reproach of the proverb: Lions at home, but foxes abroad; so sober, Spartan, and restrained was the way of life which he everywhere manifested.

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