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1 In Greece the Lacedaemonians, foreseeing how great their war with the Persians would be, put one of the two kings, Agesilaus, in command. After he had levied six thousand soldiers and constituted a council of thirty of his foremost fellow citizens,2 he transported the armament from Aulis3 to Ephesus.

1 The narrative is resumed from chapter 39.

2 Obviously a staff of administrators for him to use in important posts in the conduct of the war, as is clear, e.g., from Xen. Hell. 3.4.20.

3 Agesilaus fancies himself a second Agamemnon, leading the Greeks in a new Trojan War, and would repeat Agamemnon's farewell sacrifices at Aulis. See Plut. Agesilaus 6.4-6; Xen. Hell. 3.4.3; Xen. Hell. 5.5.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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