9) "Ages." v. 4; Plut. "Ages." xi. (Clough, iv. p. 14).

(10) See "Hell." I. i. 6.

(11) Lit. "paradises."

(12) Theopompus of Chios, the historian (b. B.C. 378, fl. B.C. 333),
"in the eleventh book (of his {Suntazis Ellenikon}) borrowed
Xenophon's lively account of the interview between Agesilaus and
Pharnabazus (Apollonius apud Euseb. B, "Praep. Evang." p. 465)."
See "Hist. Lit. of Anc. Gr.," Muller and Donaldson, ii. p. 380.

At length, after some pause, Agesilaus spoke. "I think you are aware,"
he said, "Pharnabazus, that within the states of Hellas the folk of
one community contract relations of friendship and hospitality with one
another; (13) but if these states should go to war, then each man will
side with his fatherland, and friend will find himself pitted against
friend in the field of battle, and, if it so betide, the one may even
deal the other his death-blow. So too we to-day, being at war with your
sovereign lord the king, must needs regard as our enemy all that he
calls his; not but that with yourself personally we should esteem it
our high fortune to be friends. If indeed it were merely an exchange of
service--were you asked to give up your lord the king and to take us as
your masters in his stead, I could not so advise you; but the fact is,
by joining with us it is in your power to-day to bow your head to no
man, to call no man master, to reap the produce of your own domain in
freedom--freedom, which to my mind is more precious than all riches. Not
that we bid you to become a beggar for the sake of freedom, but rather
to use our friendship to increase not the king's authority, but your
own, by subduing those who are your fellow-slaves to-day, and who
to-morrow shall be your willing subjects. Well, then, freedom given and
wealth added--what more would you desire to fill the cup of happiness to
overflowing?" Pharnabazus replied: "Shall I tell you plainly what I will
do?" "That were but kind and courteous on your part," he answered. "Thus
it stands with me, then," said Pharnabazus. "If the king should send
another general, and if he should wish to rank me under this new
man's orders, I, for my part, am willing to accept your friendship and
alliance; but if he offers me the supreme command--why, then, I plainly
tell you, there is a certain something in the very name ambition which
whispers me that I shall war against you to the best of my ability."
(14) When he heard that, Agesilaus