hese grounds they determined to ask for a flag of
truce, in order to pick up the bodies of the slain. These, however, the
Thebans were not disposed to give back unless they agreed to retire from
their territory. The terms were gladly accepted by the Lacedaemonians,
who at once picked up the corpses of the slain, and prepared to quit the
territory of Boeotia. The preliminaries were transacted, and the retreat
commenced. Despondent indeed was the demeanour of the Lacedaemonians,
in contrast with the insolent bearing of the Thebans, who visited the
slightest attempt to trespass on their private estates with blows and
chased the offenders back on to the high roads unflinchingly. Such was
the conclusion of the campaign of the Lacedaemonians.

As for Pausanias, on his arrival at home he was tried on the capital
charge. The heads of indictment set forth that he had failed to reach
Haliartus as soon as Lysander, in spite of his undertaking to be there
on the same day: that, instead of using any endeavour to pick up the
bodies of the slain by force of arms, he had asked for a flag of truce:
that at an earlier date, when he had got the popular government of
Athens fairly in his grip at Piraeus, he had suffered it to slip through
his fingers and escape. Besides this, (25) he failed to present himself
at the trial, and a sentence of death was passed upon him. He escaped
to Tegea and there died of an illness whilst still in exile. Thus closes
the chapter of events enacted on the soil of Hellas. To return to Asia
and Agesilaus.

(25) Or, add, "as a further gravamen."

BOOK IV

I

B.C. 395. With the fall of the year Agesilaus reached Phrygia--the
Phrygia of Pharnabazus--and proceeded to burn and harry the district.
City after city was taken, some by force and some by voluntary
surrender. To a proposal of Spithridates to lead him into Paphlagonia,
(1) where he would introduce the king of the country to him in
conference and obtain his alliance, he readily acceded. It was a
long-cherished ambition of Agesilaus to alienate some one of the subject
nations from the Persian monarch, and he pushed forward eagerly.

(1) See Hartman ("An. Xen." p. 339), who suggests {Otun auto} for {sun
auto}.

On his arrival in Paphlagonia, King Otys (2) came, and an alliance was
made. (The fact was, he had been summoned by the king to Susa and had
not gone up.) More than that, through the persuasion of Spithridates he
left behind as