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Updated: June 10, 2025
But early this morning, while my mother was assisting to attire me for the festival, Periclides himself called at our house, and before I came from, home, my mother, after a short conference with Dorcis, said to me, in the exuberance of her joy, 'Go, child, and call here all the maidens, as thy father ere long will go to outshine all the Grecian chiefs. So that if my father does go, thou wilt remain in Sparta.
With all his thoughts collected towards that end, he stood before the Ephors, modest in demeanour, vigilant in purpose. "Lysander," said Periclides, after a short pause, "we know thy affection to the Regent, thy chosen friend; but we know also thy affection for thy native Sparta; where the two may come into conflict, it is, and it must be, thy country which will claim the preference.
"I agree too with Agesilaus," said a third Ephor; "not because Pausanias is the Heracleid, but because he is the victorious general who demands gratitude and respect from every true Spartan." "Be it so," said Periclides, who, seeing himself thus outvoted in the council, covered his disappointment with the self-control habitual to his race.
"Besides the booty at Plataea, they say that he has amassed much plunder at Byzantium," said Zeuxidamus, one of the Ephors, after a pause. Periclides looked hard at the speaker, and the two men exchanged a significant glance.
"Let him be admitted," said Periclides. Lysander entered; and pausing at a little distance from the council board, inclined his head submissively to the Ephors; save a rapid interchange of glances, no separate greeting took place between son and father. "Thou art welcome," said Periclides. "Thou hast done thy duty since thou hast left the city.
"Nay, nay," said Periclides, with his austere smile, "thou givest me a wit and a will that I have not. But as chief of the Ephors I watch over the State. And though I design nothing, this I would counsel, On the day we answer the Ionians, we shall tell them, 'What ye ask, we long since proposed to do. And Dorcis is already on the seas as successor to Pausanias."
Thou must have intelligence not shared even by my father, himself an Ephor. What is it?" Percalus. "Thou wilt be secret, my Lysander, for what I may tell thee I can only learn at the hearth-stone." Lysander. "Fear me not. Is not all between us a secret?" Percalus. "Well, then, Periclides and my father, as thou art aware, are near kinsmen.
That night, as Agesilaus was leaving the public table at which he supped, Periclides, who was one of the same company, but who had been unusually silent during the entertainment, approached him, and said, "Let us walk towards thy home together; the moon is up, and will betray listeners to our converse should there be any."
And that same night I overheard Dorcis say to my mother, 'If I could succeed Pausanias, and conclude this war, I should be consoled for not having commanded at Platam. And my mother, who is proud for her husband's glory, as a woman should be, said, 'Why not strain every nerve as for a crown in Olympia? Periclides will aid thee thou wilt win." Lysander.
And as the presiding Ephor continued the observations he addressed to them, the rest listened with profound and almost breathless silence. The speaker, named Periclides, was older than the others. His frame, still upright and, sinewy, was yet lean almost to emaciation, his face sharp, and his dark eyes gleamed with a cunning and sinister light under his grey brows.
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