Agesilaus showed such reverence for things divine that
even his enemies regarded his oaths and solemn treaties as
more to be relied on than the tie of friendship amongst them-
selves. These same men, who would shrink from too close
intercourse with one another, delivered themselves into the

' I.e. "the army under Nectanebos." See Diod. xv. 92; Plut. Ages.
xxxvii. (Clough, iv. 44 foil. ).
