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AGKSIPOLIS. - OLYNTHUS. 67 more imposing demonstration. Their king Agesipolis was placed at the head of an expedition on the largest scale ; and his name called forth eager cooperation, both in men and money, from the allies. He marched with thirty Spartan counsellors, as Agesilaus had gone to Asia ; besides a select body of energetic youth as volunteers, from the Perioeki, from the illegitimate sons of Spar- tans, and from strangers or citizens who had lost their franchise through poverty, introduced as friends of richer Spartan citizens to go through the arduous Lykurgean training. 1 Amyntas and Derdas also were instigated to greater exertions than before, so that Agesipolis was enabled, after receiving their reinforcements in his march through Macedonia, to present himself before Olyn- thus with an overwhelming force, and to confine the citizens with- in their walls. He then completed the ravage of their territory, which had been begun by Teleutias ; and even took Torone by storm. But the extreme heat of the summer weather presently brought upon him a fever, which proved fatal in a week's time ; although he had caused himself to be carried for repose to the shady grove, and clear waters, near the temple of Dionysus at Aphytis. His body was immersed in honey and transported to Sparta, where it was buried with the customary solemnities. 1 Polybiades, who succeeded Agesipolis in the command, prose- cuted the war with undiminished vigor ; and the Olynthians, de- barred from their home produce as well as from importation, were 1 Xen. Hellen. v, 3, 9 ITo/lAo2 <5e O.VT& K.a.1 TUV TrepioiKov i-Q-s^ Kayadol ijKohovdovv, nal ^KVOI TUV Tpo<j>i/iuv Ka%,ov/j.evuv, Kai vo&oi TUV SiTrapTiaTuv, fiuha eveifiels re Kal TUV kv TTJ 7r6A KaXuv OVK uTretpoi. The phrase KVOL TUV Tpo<j>i/iuv is illustrated by a passage from Phy- larchus in Athenseus, vi, p. 271 (referred to by Schneider in his note here). I have already stated that the political franchise of a Spartan citizen de- pended upon his being able to furnish constantly his quota to the public mess-table. Many of the poor families became unable to do this, and thus lost their qualification and their training ; but rich citizens sometimes paid their quota for them, and enabled them by such aid to continue their train- ing as ZvvTpoqtoi, Tp6(j>ifj.oi, //6$a/cef, etc. as companions of their own sons. The two sons of Xenophon were educated at Sparta (Diog. Laert. ii, 54), and would thus be ZEVOI TUV Tpotyi/nuv Kahov/tevuv. If cither of them wag now old enough, he might probably have been one among the volunteers to accompany Agesipolis. 2 Xen. Hellen. v, 3, 18 ; Pausan. iii, 5, 9.