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2.17 Such, then, was Agesilaus in his friends’ behalf in most matters; but there are instances when, in meeting a critical situation, he showed more regard for the general weal. At any rate, on a time when camp was being broken in some disorder, and Agesilaus was leaving behind his loved one who was ill, and the loved one implored him and called him back with tears, Agesilaus, turning round, exclaimed, How hard it is to be merciful and sensible at the same time! Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Agesilaus, chap. xiii. (603 C); Moralia, 191 A, supra.

2.18 The mode of living which he followed personally was in no wise better than that of his associates. He refrained always from overeating and from heavy drinking. Sleep he treated, not as a master, but as governed at all times by what he had to do; and such was his attitude towards heat and cold that he alone was able to make good use of the different seasons; and in his tent, which was in the midst of his soldiers, he had no better bed than anybody else. Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Agesilaus, chap. xiv. (603); Xenophon, Agesilaus, 5. 2-3, and 9. 5; Cornelius Nepos, xvii., Agesilaus, 5. 2.

2.19 He was continually saying that the commander ought rightly to be superior to the privates not in soft living and luxury, but in endurance and courage. Cf. Xenophon, Agesilaus, 5. 2.

2.20 At any rate, when someone inquired what advantage the laws of Lycurgus had brought to Sparta, he said, Contempt for pleasures.