aus resolved to act upon it, and
despatched Lysander to the Hellespont. And this is what befell.
(8) Lysander, being made aware of a slight which had been put upon
Spithridates the Persian by Pharnabazus, got into conversation with the
injured man, and so worked upon him that he was persuaded to bring
his children and his personal belongings, and with a couple of hundred
troops to revolt. The next step was to deposit all the goods safely in
Cyzicus, and the last to get on shipboard with Spithridates and his
son, and so to present himself with his Persian friends to Agesilaus.
Agesilaus, on his side, was delighted at the transaction, and set
himself at once to get information about Pharnabazus, his territory and
his government.

(8) See "Ages." iii. 3; "Anab." VI. v. 7.

Meanwhile Tissaphernes had waxed bolder. A large body of troops had been
sent down by the king. On the strength of that he declared war against
Agesilaus, if he did not instantly withdraw his troops from Asia. The
Lacedaemonians there (9) present, no less than the allies, received the
news with profound vexation, persuaded as they were that Agesilaus had
no force capable of competing with the king's grand armament. But a
smile lit up the face of Agesilaus as he bade the ambassadors return to
Tissaphernes and tell him that he was much in his debt for the perjury
by which he had won the enmity of Heaven and made the very gods
themselves allies of Hellas. He at once issued a general order to the
troops to equip themselves for a forward movement. He warned the cities
through which he must pass in an advance upon Caria, to have markets in
readiness, and lastly, he despatched a message to the Ionian, Aeolian,
and Hellespontine communities to send their contingents to join him at
Ephesus.

(9) I.e. at Ephesus.

Tissaphernes, putting together the facts that Agesilaus had no cavalry
and that Caria was a region unadapted to that arm, and persuaded in
his own mind also that the Spartan could not but cherish wrath against
himself personally for his chicanery, felt convinced that he was really
intending to invade Caria, and that the satrap's palace was his final
goal. Accordingly he transferred the whole of his infantry to that
province, and proceeded to lead his cavalry round into the plain of the
Maeander. Here he conceived himself capable of trampling the Hellenes
under foot with his horsemen before they could reach the craggy
districts where no cavalry cou