Hellenica

In the ensuing year—the year in which there[*](406 B.C.) was an eclipse of the moon one evening, and the old temple[*](On the Acropolis. On its identity see D’Ooge, Acropolis of Athens, Appendix III.) of Athena at Athens was burned, Pityas being now ephor at Sparta and Callias archon at Athens—the Lacedaemonians sent Callicratidas to take command[*](406 B.C.) of the fleet, since Lysander’s term of office had ended (and with it the twenty-fourth year of the war).