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but AgesilaĆ¼s snatched Sphodrias from the death which hung over him for wronging the Athenians, merely to gratify the love of his son, and when Phoebidas treacherously broke the peace with Thebes, he evidently made the crime itself a reason for zealously supporting him. In a word, whatever harm Pompey was accused of bringing upon the Romans out of deference to his friends or through ignorance, AgesilaĆ¼s brought as much upon the Lacedaemonians out of obstinacy and resentment when he kindled the Boeotian war.
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