24.1
Of course this gave rise at once to a suspicion that while Phoebidas had done the deed, Agesilaüs had counselled it; and his subsequent acts brought the charge into general belief. For when the Thebans expelled the Spartan garrison and liberated their city,In 379 B.C., with the help of the Athenians (Xenophon Hell. v. 4, 2-12). Cf. the Pelopidas ix.-xiii. he charged them with the murder of Archias and Leontidas, who were really tyrants, though polemarchs in name, and levied war upon them.
24.2
And Cleombrotus, who was king now that Agesipolis was dead, was sent into Boeotia with an army; for Agesilaüs, who had now borne arms for forty years, and was therefore exempt by law from military service, declined this command. He was ashamed, after having recently made war upon the Phliasians in behalf of their exiles,In 380-379 B.C. (Xenophon, Hell. v. 3, 13-25). to be seen now harrying the Thebans in the interests of their tyrants.Cf. Xenophon, Hell. v. 4, 13.
