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64 - Xenophon, Anabasis VII

Cost of Glory

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Xenophon and the Spartans

The army agrees to fight for the Spartans here and I'm gonna oversimplify basically. So Suthys owes them quite a bit of back pay at this point. The Spartan emissaries here they think it's best to have Xenophon go and try to negotiate to get their back pay from Suthys. He rides out to Suthys for one final meeting and this is kind of poignant. This first one I like because Xenophon drops some good wisdom on what the value of money versus the value of honor is.

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