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[2] Later on, when Epaminondas had come to Sparta as an envoy, what time the Lacedaemonians said they were concluding with the Greeks the peace called the Peace of Antalcidas,1 Agesilaus asked him whether they would allow each Boeotian city to swear to the peace separately. He replied: “No, Spartans, not before we see your vassals2 taking the oath city by city.”

1 378 B.C

2 “Neighbors,” Perioeci, Sparta's free neighbors with no political rights.

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