f the land
force where needed. Apprised of these measures, Agesilaus in the first
instance sent an order to the cities on the islands and the seaboard to
fit out as many ships of war as they severally might deem desirable.
The result was a new navy, consisting of the vessels thus voluntarily
furnished by the states, with others presented by private persons out
of courtesy to their commander, and amounting in all to a fleet of one
hundred and twenty sail. The admiral whom he selected was Peisander, his
wife's brother, a man of genuine ambition and of a vigorous spirit, but
not sufficiently expert in the details of equipment to achieve a great
naval success. Thus while Peisander set off to attend to naval matters,
Agesilaus continued his march whither he was bound to Phrygia.

(19) = 7,312 pounds: 10 shillings.

(20) See "Cyrop." VII. i. 45.

(21) See Grote, "H. G." ix. 327, note 3; Arist. "Pol." ii. 9, 33.

V

But now Tithraustes seemed to have discovered in Agesilaus a disposition
to despise the fortunes of the Persian monarch--he evidently had no
intention to withdraw from Asia; on the contrary, he was cherishing
hopes vast enough to include the capture of the king himself. Being at
his wits' end how to manage matters, he resolved to send Timocrates the
Rhodian to Hellas with a gift of gold worthy fifty silver talents, (1)
and enjoined upon him to endeavour to exchange solemn pledges with
the leading men in the several states, binding them to undertake a
war against Lacedaemon. Timocrates arrived and began to dole out
his presents. In Thebes he gave gifts to Androcleidas, Ismenias, and
Galaxidorus; in Corinth to Timolaus and Polyanthes; in Argos to Cylon
and his party. The Athenians, (2) though they took no share of the gold,
were none the less eager for the war, being of opinion that empire
was theirs by right. (3) The recipients of the moneys forthwith began
covertly to attack the Lacedaemonians in their respective states, and,
when they had brought these to a sufficient pitch of hatred, bound
together the most important of them in a confederacy.

(1) = 12,187 pounds: 10 shillings.

(2) See Paus. III. ix. 8; Plut. "Ages." xv.

(3) Reading {nomizontes auton to arkhein} with Sauppe; or if, as
Breitinbach suggests, {enomizon de oukh outon to arkhesthai},
translate "but thought it was not for them to take the
initiative."

But it was clear to the leaders in Thebes that, unless some one st