Agesilaus

Sections

1.1 – 1.4 1.5 – 1.7 1.8 – 1.11 1.12 – 1.14 1.15 – 1.17 1.18 – 1.20 1.21 – 1.23 1.24 – 1.26 1.27 – 1.29 1.30 – 1.32 1.33 – 1.35 1.36 – 1.36 1.37 – 2.1 2.2 – 2.4 2.5 – 2.7 2.8 – 2.10 2.11 – 2.12 2.13 – 2.15 2.16 – 2.17 2.18 – 2.19 2.20 – 2.21 2.22 – 2.23 2.24 – 2.25 2.26 – 2.28 2.29 – 2.30 2.31 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.4 3.5 – 4.2 4.3 – 4.6 5.1 – 5.3 5.4 – 5.5 5.6 – 6.1 6.2 – 6.4 6.5 – 6.8 7.1 – 7.3 7.4 – 7.6 7.7 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.4 8.5 – 8.6 8.7 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.5 9.6 – 10.1 10.2 – 10.3 10.4 – 11.2 11.3 – 11.6 11.7 – 11.10 11.11 – 11.14 11.15 – 11.16

İngilizce Yunanca

1.18 For the accumulation of plunder was so great that things were selling for next to nothing. So he gave his friends the word to buy, saying that he was shortly going down to the coast with his army.Where the goods would be re-sold at a profit. The auctioneers were ordered to have a schedule made of the prices obtained and to give delivery of the goods. Thus without capital outlay, and without any loss to the treasury, all his friends made a prodigious amount of money.

1.19 Further, whenever deserters offered to give information where plunder might be taken, they naturally went to the king. In such a case he took care that the capture should be effected by his friends, so that they might at one and the same time make money and add to their laurels. The immediate result was that he had many ardent suitors for his friendship.

1.20 Recognizing that a country plundered and depopulated could not long support an army, whereas an inhabited and cultivated land would yield inexhaustible supplies, he took pains not only to crush his enemies by force, but also to win them over by gentleness.