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Updated: May 15, 2025
At the threshold of the door stood his mother for the tidings of his coming had preceded him and his little brothers and sisters. His step quickened at the sight of these beloved faces. "Bound forward, Lysander," said one of the train; "thou hast won the right to thy mother's kiss." "But fail us not at the pheidition before sunset," cried another.
"The Gods bless thee, maiden!" said Lysander, with grateful passion, "and blessed be the State that rears such women; elsewhere Greece knows them not." "And does Greece elsewhere know such men?" asked Percalus, raising her graceful head. "But so late is it possible? See where the shadows are falling! Thou wilt but be in time for thy pheidition. Farewell." "But when to meet again?"
Enough of these grave matters: the sun is sinking towards the west, and thy companions await thee at thy feast; mine will be eager to greet me on thy return, and thy little brothers, who go with me to my pheidition, will hear thee so praised that they will long for the crypteia long to be men, and find some future Plataea for themselves. May the gods forbid it! War is a terrible unsettler.
Agesilaus, thou art excused from the public table to-day if thou wouldst sup with thy brave son at home." "Nay," said Agesilaus, "my son will go to his pheidition and I to mine as I did on the day when I lost my first-born." On quitting the Hall of the Ephors, Lysander found himself at once on the Spartan Agora, wherein that Hall was placed.
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