Cuius cum in intimam amicitiam pervenisset et Atheniensium, male gestis in Sicilia rebus, opes senescere, contra Lacedaemoniorum crescere videret, initio cum Pisandro praetore, qui apud Samum exercitum habebat, per internuntios conloquitur et de reditu suo facit mentionem. Erat enim eodem quo Alcibiades sensu, populi potentiae non amicus et optimatium fautor.
Having won the Persians intimate friendship, and perceiving that the power of Athens was waning after the reverse in Sicily, while that of Lacedaemon was growing, he first conferred through intermediaries with Pisander, a general who had an army at Samos, hinting at the possibility of his return to Athens; for Pisander held the same political opinions as Alcibiades, being no friend to popular government but favouring the aristocrats.
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