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ὡς φιλίαν ἢ ὡς πολεμίαν διαπορεύηται τὴν χώραν. οἱ μὲν οὖν ἄλλοι φιλικῶς ἐδέχοντο καὶ παρέπεμπον: οἱ δὲ καλούμενοι Τραλλεῖς,1 οἷς καὶ Ξέρξης, ὡς λέγεται, ἔδωκε2 δῶρα, τῆς διόδου μισθὸν ᾔτουν τὸν Ἀγησίλαον ἑκατὸν ἀργυρίου τάλαντα καὶ γυναῖκας τοσαύτας: ὁ δὲ κατειρωνευσάμενος αὐτοὺς καὶ φήσας ‘τί οὖν οὐκ εὐθὺς ἦλθον ληψόμενοι,’ προῆγε καὶ συμβαλὼν αὐτοῖς παρατεταγμένοις τρεψάμενος καὶ διαφθείρας πολλοὺς διῆλθεν.
τῷ δὲ τῶν Μακεδόνων βασιλεῖ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐρώτημα προσέπεμψε: φήσαντος δ᾽ ἐκείνου βουλεύσεσθαι,3 ‘βουλευέσθω τοίνυν,’ εἶπεν, ‘ἡμεῖς δὲ πορευσόμεθα.’ θαυμάσας οὖν τὴν τόλμαν καὶ δείσας ἐκέλευσεν ὡς φίλον προάγειν.4
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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