To keep quiet and enjoy leisure was his duty, in the exer-
cise of which he wpre away the time at Ephesus. But in
reference to the organisation of the several states it was a
season of vehement constitutional disturbance in the several
cities; that is to say, there were neither democracies as in
the old days of the Athenians, nor yet were there decarchies
as in the days of Lysander. But here was Lysander back again.
Every one recognised him, and flocked to him with petitions

' For this corrupt passage, see Hartman, Anal. Xen. p. 332 ; also Otto
Keller's critical edition of the Hellenica (Lips, mdccclxxx.).
