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58 - Agesilaus I: Persian Expedition

Cost of Glory

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The Deeds of Men Who Know How to Reward Favors

A Giselleus arrives before the Persian and waits for him with his Spartan advisors, reclining under a tree. The Farnabazas approaches, shakes a GiselleUS' hand, and sits down with him. No thrones, no couches, just there on the grass, like a Spartan. Then he addresses them in perfect Greek, and Xenophon records his words. "I became your friend and ally at the time when you were at war with the Athenians"

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