
64 - Xenophon, Anabasis VII
Cost of Glory
Euclades and Xenophon in the Lyceum
Xenophon met a seer Euclades the son of Cleagoras who painted the murals in the Lyceum. Xenophon said he would not even have enough money to pay his traveling expenses on the way home unless he should sell his horse and whatever he had about his person. The Lamps Aquines sent gifts of hospitality to Xenophon as he was sacrificing to Apollo. He sacrificed offering whole victims of swine after the custom of his fathers and he obtained favorable omens.
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