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His political opponents Cleon, Simmias, or Lacratidas, perhaps all three in conjunction took care to provide an opportunity for this prevalent irritation to manifest itself in act, by bringing an accusation against him before the dicastery.
The name prefixed to the accusation was Cleon, as Idomeneus tells us; Simmias, according to Theophrastus; and Heraclides Ponticus gives it as Lacratidas. After this, public troubles were soon to leave him unmolested; the people, so to say, discharged their passion in their stroke, and lost their stings in the wound.
But Lacratidas, a wise man, and at that time chief of the Ephors, hindered Agesilaus, and said, they ought not to dig up Lysander again, but rather to bury with him a discourse, composed so plausibly and subtlety.
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