seized the satrap's hand, exclaiming:
"Ah, best of mortals, may the day arrive which sends us such a friend!
Of one thing rest assured. This instant I leave your territory with what
haste I may, and for the future--even in case of war--as long as we can
find foes elsewhere our hands shall hold aloof from you and yours."

(13) Or, add, "we call them guest friends."

(14) Or, "so subtle a force, it seems, is the love of honour that."
Grote, "H. G." ix. 386; cf. Herod. iii. 57 for "ambition,"
{philotimia}.

And with these words he broke up the meeting. Pharnabazus mounted his
horse and rode away, but his son by Parapita, who was still in the bloom
of youth, lingered behind; then, running up to Agesilaus, he exclaimed:
"See, I choose you as my friend." "And I accept you," replied the king.
"Remember, then," the lad answered, and with the word presented the
beautiful javelin in his hand to Agesilaus, who received it, and
unclasping a splendid trapping (15) which his secretary, Idaeus, had
round the neck of his charger, he gave it in return to the youth;
whereupon the boy leapt on his horse's back and galloped after his
father. (16) At a later date, during the absence of Pharnabazus abroad,
this same youth, the son of Parapita, was deprived of the government by
his brother and driven into exile. Then Agesilaus took great interest
in him, and as he had a strong attachment to the son of Eualces, an
Athenian, Agesilaus did all he could to have this friend of his, who
was the tallest of the boys, admitted to the two hundred yards race at
Olympia.

(15) {phalara}, bosses of gold, silver, or other metals, cast or
chased, with some appropriate device in relief, which were worn as
an ornamental trapping for horses, affixed to the head-stall or to
a throat-collar, or to a martingale over the chest.--Rich's
"Companion to Lat. Dict. and Greek Lex.," s.v.

(16) See Grote, ix. 387; Plut. "Ages." xiv. (Clough, iv. 15); "Ages."
iii. 5. The incident is idealised in the "Cyrop." I. iv. 26 foll.
See "Lyra Heroica": CXXV. A Ballad of East and West--the incident
of the "turquoise-studded rein."

B.C. 394. But to return to the actual moment. Agesilaus was as good as
his word, and at once marched out of the territory of Pharnabazus. The
season verged on spring. Reaching the plain of Thebe, (17) he encamped
in the neighbourhood of the temple of Artemis of Astyra, (18) and there
employed himself in coll