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Updated: May 28, 2025
His residence being only at a distance of a little more than two miles from the great temple of Olympia, he was enabled to enjoy society with every variety of Greeks and to obtain copious information about Grecian politics, chiefly from philo-Laconian informants, and with the Lacedæmonian point of view predominant in his own mind; while he had also leisure for the composition of his various works.
After this speech from the philo-Laconian Xenophon so significant a testimony of the unmeasured ascendency and interference of the Lacedæmonians throughout Greece Agasias rose, and proclaimed, that what he had done was neither under the orders, nor with the privity, of Xenophon; that he had acted on a personal impulse of wrath, at seeing his own honest and innocent soldier dragged away by the traitor Dexippus; but that he now willingly gave himself up as a victim, to avert from the army the displeasure of the Lacedæmonians.
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