29.6
It was this tyrant, however, who, terrified at the name and fame and distinction of the generalship of Epaminondas, Crouched down, though warrior bird, like slave, with drooping wings, An iambic trimeter of unknown authorship; cf. the Alcibiades, iv. 3. and speedily sent a deputation to him which should explain his conduct. But Epaminondas could not consent that the Thebans should make peace and friendship with such a man; he did, however, make a thirty days’ truce with him, and after receiving Pelopidas and Ismenias, returned home.
30.1
Now, when the Thebans learned that ambassadors from Sparta and Athens were on their way to the Great King to secure an alliance, they also sent Pelopidas thither; and this was a most excellent plan, in view of his reputation. For, in the first place, he went up through the provinces of the king as a man of name and note; for the glory of his conflicts with the Lacedaemonians had not made its way slowly or to any slight extent through Asia,
