oft-frustrated

Updated: September 2, 2025

While Philip was in Thebes as a young man, old Agesilaus, who first of Greeks had conceived the idea of invading the inland East, was still seeking a way to realize his oft-frustrated project; and in the end he went off to Egypt to make a last effort after Philip was already on the throne.

D. G. (David George) Hogarth - The Ancient East