Xenophon, Hellenica, Carleton L. Brownson (Translator), 5.2.3

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[3] When, accordingly, they now refused to tear down their walls, the Lacedaemonians called out the ban against them.
Now Agesilaus requested the state to relieve him of the command of this expedition, saying that the city of the Mantineans had rendered his father many services in the wars against Messene; Agesipolis, therefore, led forth the ban, even¹ though his father, Pausanias,² was on exceedingly friendly terms with the leaders of the popular party in Mantinea.

Hellenica. Xenophon. Carleton L. Brownson (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1918-1921.

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Hellenica (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol. 1-2. Brownson, Carleton L., editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1918-1921.)

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Ἑλληνικά Perseus (Xenophon. Xenophontis Opera Omnia, Vol. 1. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900.) — 5.2.3 focus

[3] ἐπεὶ δʼ οὐκ ἤθελον καθαιρεῖν τὰ τείχη, φρουρὰν φαίνουσιν ἐπʼ αὐτούς. Ἀγησίλαος μὲν οὖν ἐδεήθη τῆς πόλεως ἀφεῖναι ἑαυτὸν ταύτης τῆς στρατηγίας, λέγων ὅτι τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ ἡ τῶν Μαντινέων πόλις πολλὰ ὑπηρετήκοι ἐν τοῖς πρὸς Μεσσήνην πολέμοις· Ἀγησίπολις δὲ ἐξήγαγε τὴν φρουρὰν καὶ μάλα Παυσανίου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ φιλικῶς ἔχοντος πρὸς τοὺς ἐν Μαντινείᾳ τοῦ δήμου προστάτας.

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Hellenica

1. 385 B.C.

2. Who was still living, though deposed and in exile.cp. III. v. 25.

Xenophon Hellenica 5.2.3

Carleton L. Brownson (Translator)

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