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Supposing then that Sparta was stripped of soldiers, he planned a great
stroke, but fortune worked against him. He himself set out by night to Sparta, but the
Lacedaemonian king Agis, suspecting the cunning of Epameinondas, shrewdly guessed what he would
do, and sent out some Cretan runners and through them forestalling Epameinondas got word to the
men who had been left behind in Sparta that the Boeotians would shortly appear in Lacedaemon to
sack the city, but that he himself would come as quickly as possible with his army to bring aid
to his native land.1 So he gave orders for those who were in Sparta to
watch over the city and be terrified at nothing, for he himself would soon appear with help.
1 See Xen. Hell. 7.5.4-17; Polybius 9.8; Plut. Agesilaus 34. Diodorus' account diverges from the other three in that it is Agesilaus who is represented by them as already on the way to Mantineia and forced to return to protect Sparta. Except for the well-known bias of Xenophon for Agesilaus, one could unhesitatingly suspect Diodorus, especially since no Spartan king Agis is known for this date. Cleomenes, brother of Agesipolis and son of Cleombrotus, succeeded the former in 370 and still ruled (see chap. 60.4 and note 2 on p. 119).
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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