general, attended, like Agesilaus (4) on
his Asiatic campaign, by thirty Spartans. (5) Volunteers flocked to his
standard. They were partly the pick and flower of the provincials, (6)
partly foreigners of the class called Trophimoi, (7) or lastly, bastard
sons of Spartans, comely and beautiful of limb, and well versed in the
lore of Spartan chivalry. The ranks of this invading force were further
swelled by volunteers from the allied states, the Thessalians notably
contributing a corps of cavalry. All were animated by the desire of
becoming known to Agesipolis, so that even Amyntas and Derdas in zeal
of service outdid themselves. With this promise of success Agesipolis
marched forward against Olynthus.

(4) See above, "Hell." III. iv. 2.

(5) Lit. "Spartiates." The new army was sent out B.C. 380, according
to Grote.

(6) Lit. "beautiful and brave of the Perioeci."

(7) Xenophon's own sons educated at Sparta would belong to this class.
See Grote, "H. G." x. 91.

Meanwhile the state of Phlius, complimented by Agesipolis on the amount
of the funds contributed by them to his expedition and the celerity with
which the money had been raised, and in full belief that while one king
was in the field they were secure against the hostile attack of the
other (since it was hardly to be expected that both kings should be
absent from Sparta at one moment), boldly desisted from doing justice
by her lately reinstated citizens. On the one hand, these exiles claimed
that points in dispute should be determined before an impartial court
of justice; the citizens, on the other, insisted on the claimants
submitting the cases for trial in the city itself. And when the latter
demurred to that solution, asking "What sort of trial that would be
where the offenders were also the judges?" they appealed to deaf
ears. Consequently the restored party appealed at Sparta, to prefer a
complaint against their city. They were accompanied by other members of
the community, who stated that many of the Phliasians themselves besides
the appellants recognised the injustice of their treatment. The state of
Phlius was indignant at this manouvre, and retaliated by imposing a fine
on all who had betaken themselves to Lacedaemon without a mandate from
the state. Those who incurred the fine hesitated to return home; they
preferred to stay where they were and enforce their views: "It is quite
plain now who were the perpetrators of all the violence--the