Agesilaus

How so, when I am alive?

Because he whom you call your father said that you were not his son.

But Poseidon showed that you are entirely in the wrong, for he drove your father out of her chamber into the open by an earthquake.

Thus Agesilaus in his return from Asia when he had asked a passage of the King of the Macedonians, who answered that he would consider of it, said, you may consider, if you please, but we shall pass in the mean time.

Not unlike this answer of the soldiers under Clearchus is the question put to the different nations of Thrace by Agesilaus, who desired to know whether they wished him to pass through their country as a friend, or as an enemy.

But the real motive of that bold and enterprising hero, was the easy acquisition of wealth and dominion, which the expeditions of Xenophon and Agesilaus had opened to his view.

But in earnest it has come to me to call Agesilaus the king of the Lacedaemonians blessed for his judgment, who never thought fit either to have a moulded or imitated likeness of his body made — not because he was lame, as they say, and small (for what hindered the statue from being great?

Was not Agesilaus, then, king of Sparta, who obeyed other rulers?

But learning that Agesilaus had crossed over into Asia with a large force and was ravaging the country, he was so dauntless of spirit that, although he possessed no resource whatever save his body and his wits, he was yet confident that he could conquer the Lacedaemonians, albeit they were the first power in Hellas on both land and sea;

It was this which Agesilaus, for all that he was looked upon as the most sagacious of the Lacedaemonians, disregarded, not because of incapacity but because of ambition.

For he had two aims, which, though laudable, were not consistent, and could not he carried out at the same time, since he was resolved both to make war against the King and to restore his friends to their cities and put them in control of affairs. Naturally the result of his efforts in behalf of his friends was that the Hellenes were involved in troubles and perils, and, owing to the confusion whi …

The Spartans have now won three battles:

Read the panegyrics, Torquatus — not of those who were praised by Homer, not of Cyrus, not of Agesilaus, not of Aristides or Themistocles, not of Philip or Alexander;

and that Agesilaus, with the help of the army of Cyrus, conquered almost all the territory this side of the Halys river.

For example, they maintained the army under Agesilaus at their own expense for eight months, but they deprived the soldiers who were fighting in the Persian cause of their pay for double that length of time;

The victory lay with Agesilaus;

But Agesilaus did not play false:

Having done this, he returned home.

The share which belonged to Artemis of the Ephesians he left behind, at the time when he was returning from Asia with Agesilaus to take part in the campaign against Boeotia, in charge of Megabyzus, the sacristan of Artemis, for the reason that his own journey seemed likely to be a dangerous one;