[153] For example, they maintained the army under Agesilaus at their own expense for eight months,
1
but they deprived the soldiers who were fighting in the Persian cause of their pay for double that length of time; they distributed an hundred talents among the captors of Cisthene,
2
but treated more outrageously than their prisoners of war the troops who supported them in the campaign against
Cyprus
.
Panegyricus. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.
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