Lysander, a Spartan general and admiral who put an end to the Peloponnesian War by defeat of the Athenian fleet off Ægospotami, and of whom Plutarch says in characterisation of him, he knew how to sew the skin of the fox on that of the lion; fell in battle in 395 B.C.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lyric Poetry * Lysimachus