^ See ffell. I. i. 6 (Trans, vol. i. p. 2). ^ Lit. "paradises.''



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simple debt of gratitude." He ceased, and the Thirty were
ashamed before him and kept silence.^

At length, after some pause, Agesilaus spoke. " I think
you are aware," he said, " Pharnabazus, that within the states
of Hellas the folk of one community contract relations of
friendship and hospitality with one another j^ but if these
states should go to war, then each man will side with his
fatherland, and friend will find himself pitted against friend
in the field of battle, and, if it so betide, the one may even
deal the other his death-blow. So too we to-day, being at war
with your sovereign lord the king, must needs regard as our
enemy all that he calls his; not but that with yourself per-
sonally we should esteem it our high fortune to be friends.
