Chief among these were the intrigues of his predecessor, who had apparently returned the money from which the fleet was supposed to be paid for to its source, the Persian prince Cyrus.
Callicratidas needed money from Cyrus to pay his men, but, as a traditionalist Spartan, he was loath to request it from a Persian.
He disdained the policy of alliance with Persia that had come into favor under Lysander, and he stated that if the choice were his, he would seek peace with Athens.
The increasing role of money in Spartan politics and diplomacy offended his traditionalist, antimaterialist sensibilities.
[2] The treatise puts forward the idea that remarked that a wife's wealth may thwart her husband's rule.