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63 - Xenophon, Anabasis VI

Cost of Glory

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Xenophon and the Spartans in the Triremes

Xenophon is a lackidimonian perioicus. He's one of the dwellers around who are not full Spartan citizens, but kind of in the Spartan fold. So he immediately proceeded to drive away the soldiers who were standing about and declaring that the animals were public property. And then he went straight away and told Cleander that they were attempting robbery. But Agassius, happening to meet them, rescued the man for he was one of his company. The other soldiers who were present said about stoning Decipus, calling him the traitor. Many of the soldiers from the Triremes, these are the Spartans from Byzantium, got frightened and they began to

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