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276 HISTORY 01< GREECE. of the victors. As the Paplilagonians under Spithridates formed the cavalry of the victorious detachment, they naturally took more spoil and more prisoners than the infantry. They were proceed- ing to carry off their acquisitions, when Herippidas interfered and took everything away from them ; placing the entire spoil of every description, under the charge of Grecian officers, to be sold by formal auction in a Grecian city ; after which the proceeds were to be distributed or applied by public authority. The orders of Herippidas were conformable to the regular and systematic pro- ceeding of Grecian officers ; but Spithridates and the Paphlago- nians were probably justified by Asiatic practice in appropriating that which they had themselves captured. Moreover, the order, disagreeable in itself, was enforced against them with Lacedaemo- nian harshness of manner, 1 unaccompanied by any guarantee that they would be allowed, even at last, a fair share of the proceeds. Resenting the conduct of Herippidas as combining injury with insult, they deserted in the night and fled to Sardis, where the Persian Ariaeus was in actual revolt against the court of Susa, This was a serious loss, and still more serious chagrin, to Agesilaus. He was not only deprived of valuable auxiliary cavalry, and of an enterprizing Asiatic informant ; but the report would be spread that he defrauded his Asiatic allies of their legitimate plunder, and others would thus be deterred from joining him. His personal sorrow too was aggravated by the departure of the youth Mega- bazus, who accompanied his father Spithridates to Sardis. 3 It was towards the close of this winter that a personal confer- ence took place between Agesilaus and Pharnabazus, managed by the intervention of a Greek of Kyzikus named Apollophanes ; who was connected by ties of hospitality with both, and served to each as guarantee for the good faith of the other. We have from Xenophon, himself probably present, an interesting detail of this interview. Agesilaus, accompanied by his thirty Spartan counsel- 1 Plutarch, Agesil. c. 11. iriKpdf uv fera<rr/;f ruv K^cntevTuv, etc. 2 Xen. Hellen. iv, 1, 27 ; Plutarch, Agesil. c. 11. Since the flight of Spithridates took place secretly by night, the scene which Plutarch asserts to have taken place between Agesilaus and Mega- bazus cannot have occuired on the departure of the latter, but must belong to some other occasion ; as, indeed, it seems to be represented by Xeno phon (Agesil. r 4).