Whom had Sparta to ostracise?
She produced, at most, four eminent men, Brasidas, Gylippus, Lysander, and Agesilaus.

Of these, not one rose to distinction within her jurisdiction.

It was only when they escaped from the region within which the influence of aristocracy withered everything good and noble, it was only when they ceased to be Lacedaemonians, that they became great men.

Brasidas, among the cities of Thrace, was strictly a democratical leader, the favourite minister and general of the people.

The same may be said of Gylippus, at Syracuse.