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[2] Now it happened that the Lacedaemonians had sustained a great disaster at Leuctra; that the Athenians laid claim to the mastery of the sea only; that the Thebans were unworthy of first rank; and that the Argives had been brought low by civil wars and internecine slaughter. So the Thessalians put Jason forward as leader1 of the whole country, and as such gave him supreme command in war. Jason accepted the command, won over some of the tribes near by, and entered into alliance with Amyntas king of the Macedonians.

1 Jason was made Tagus of the Thessalians, Xen. Hell. 6.1.18. Beloch, Griechische Geschichte （2）, 3.2.237, prefers Diodorus' date 371 to Xenophon's 375/4. For Jason's ambitions see Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.83. Jason's death (chap. 5) caused the sudden collapse of unification in Thessaly and opened the door to Theban aggressions.

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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