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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: deliverance of the troops with Cyrus, persuaded Agesilaus, to
undertake a campaign into Asia, provided the authorities would furnish
him with thirty Spartans, two thousand of the enfranchised,[2] and
contingents of the allies amounting to six thousand men. Apart from
these calculations, Lysander had a personal object: he wished to
accompany the king himself, and by his aid to re-establish the
decarchies originally set up by himself in the different cities, but
at a later date expelled through the action of the ephors, who had
issued a fiat re-establishing the old order of constitution.
[2] Technically, "neodamodes."
B.C. 396. To this offer on the part of Agesilaus to undertake such an
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