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[3] As ambassador to the Persian King he took Messene under his personal charge in the general settlement, and though for three hundred years it had been stripped of inhabitants, the Thebans established it again.1 At the end of his life, in the contest with Alexander who had an army far out-numbering his, he not only gained a glorious victory, but also met his death with a courage that made it renowned.2

1 See Plut. Pelopidas 30.5; Xen. Hell. 7.1.35-36.

2 See chap. 80 and notes.

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