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Headword:
*)aghsi/laos
Adler number: alpha,229
Translated headword: Agesilaos, Agesilaus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name. He was a notable and noble king of Lacedaemonians and is celebrated by many of the orators.
Greek Original:*)aghsi/laos: o)/noma ku/rion. h)=n de\ *lakedaimoni/wn e)pifanh\s kai\ gennai=os basileu\s kai\ a)/|detai para\ polloi=s tw=n r(hto/rwn.
Note:
The phrase 'a notable and noble king of Lacedaemonians' comes from Harpokration s.v., though it is
Xenophon who is cited there, and the sentence finishes quite differently ("and he overturned much of Asia using the soldiers who had gone upcountry with Cyrus").
P.A. Cartledge, Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta (London 1987)
OCD(4) s.v. (pp.38-9)
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: Nathan Greenberg ✝ on 24 November 1998@14:10:32.
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