13 legious," and yet to hold those who tear suppliants from altars, religious. He, indeed, never ceased declaring, that he thought the gods were full as well 10 pleased with holy deeds, as with sacred temples. And whenever he was prosperous, he did not look down upon men, but felt grateful12 to the gods. He offered more sacrifices 13 [when] sanguine,1 than prayers 13 [when] anxious. 15 He was wont,16 too, to seem cheerful [when] apprehensive, and subdued" [when] prosperous. Of his friends he welcomed most cordially, not the most powerful, but the most zealous; and he hated, not the man who 18 retaliated illtreatment,19 but any one who showed 20 himself ungrateful for kindness.19 He rejoiced, too, [at] seeing the sordid 21 poor, and [in] making the just rich, being desirous to render justice more profitable than injustice. 7 Ἱεροσύλους. 8 Υμνῶν. W. Gr. Gr. § 164. • Optative (orat. obl.). W. Gr. Gr. § 156; JELF, § 885. 10 Οὐδὲν ἧττον. 11 Optative, because 'repetition' or 'frequency' is implied. W. Gr. Gr. § 157. 13 Πλείονα θύειν—εὔχεσθαι. 14 Θαῤῥῶν. 15 Οκνῶν. 17 IIpãos. 18 Εἴτις. 19 Participle. 12 Χάριν εἰδέναι. 16 Pluperfect of ἐθίζομαι. 20 Optative, because it is more indefinite than the preceding clause in the indicative. 21 Αἰσχροκερδής. IX. The causes, then, which ruin1 families, are in a much greater degree2 these, than extreme ignorance. To those, however, who are able to devote themselves to it, and are zealous farmers,5 my father told me that the most certain profit arose from farming. For he never allowed me to buy a highly cultivated estate, but recommended me to purchase one which, either through carelessness or incapacity [on the part] of its proprietors, happened to be1o 3 Ανεπιστημοσύνη. 8 Τὰ οὖ ν συντρίβοντα. 4 Επιμελεῖσθαι. γασμένος χῶρος. 5 2 Πολὺ μᾶλλον. 6 7 10 * Συντεταμένως γεωργείν. • Χρημάτισις. * Εξειρ- 11 16 fallow and unplanted: for he alleged, that highly cultivated estates were at once very expensive12 and not improveable; 13 and those which did not admit of11 improvement, he thought did not afford equal pleasures. On the contrary, 15 he conceived that every article of property' and all livestock 17 that was capable of improvement, gave the most satisfaction.18 Now, nothing admits of more improvement than an estate which becomes fruitful after lying fallow.19 Be assured,20 that we have ere now 21 rendered many estates worth many times 22 their original value.23 11 Αργός. 12 Πολλοῦ ἀργυρίου γίγνεσθαι. W. Gr. Gr. § 131, b. 14"Εχειν. 15 Αλλά. 16 Κτήμα. 19 'Eέ ȧpyoù. W. Gr. Gr. § 184. 17 Θρέμμα, 20 Εὖ γὰρ 13 Ἐπίδοσιν οὐκ ἔχειν. 18 Εὐφραίνειν μάλιστα. oor yàp is constantly inserted to maintain the connexion between one Greek sentence and another, where no corresponding particle is used in English. See Preface, § ii. 21 "Hon its various significations are clearly stated by JELF, Gr. Gr. § 719, 4. 22 Πολλαπλάolos, agreeing with 'value.' W. Gr. Gr. § 131, b. 23 Τιμή. X. In Athens, the Paralus1 having arrived at night,3 the disaster was told; and the lamentation5 penetrated from the Piræus through the Long Walls to the city, one man announcing it to the other; so that during that nights no man went to sleep,9 not only [for] mourning 10 the lost, but still more [for] thinking that they would themselves suffer what they had inflicted on 12 the Melians, and many 1 'H Пápaλos, sc. the vessel so called. 3 Genitive. W. Gr. Gr. § 131, a. 4 Ξυμφορά. 2 Gen. abs. ἀφικόμενος. 5 Οιμωγή. Διῆκεν. 9 Kol 7"Aorv. This term specially denoted the upper town, as opposed to the Piraus. 8 Пapayyéλλwv, nom. abs. W. Gr. Gr. § 128. μᾶσθαι. 10 Πενθοῦντες, plural κατὰ σύνεσιν. W. Gr. Gr. § 123. 11 Fut. middle of náσxw. 12 Пoleiv, with accus. of person and thing. W. Gr. Gr. § 139. others of the Greeks. But on the following 13 day they held 14 an assembly,15 in which it was determined 16 to block 17 up the harbours save one, to repair 18 the fortifications,19 and to mount guards upon them,20 and in all other respects 21 to prepare the city as if for a siege.22 Heu I. 3. 12 There was a certain Apollophanes of Cyzicus, who happened to be an old3 friend of Pharnabazus, and had also been a guest of Agesilaus about that period. So7 this man told Agesilaus that he believed he could bring Pharnabazus to an amicable conference with him; and as Agesilaus listened to him, after exchanging pledges,1o he appeared11 conducting Pharnabazus to a spot agreed upon.' There Agesilaus and his attendants,13 thirty [in number], lying on the ground,14 on a plot of turf,15 awaited him: and Pharnabazus arrived, arrayed in 16 a very valuable robe. But when the attendants spread 18 beneath him embroidered carpets,19 upon which the Persians luxuriously 20 recline,21 he was ashamed to be effeminate,22 when he witnessed 23 the simplicity 24 of Agesilaus; he therefore, like the others,25 lay upon the ground, as he was.26 1 Κυζικηνός 2 W. Gr. Gr. § 165, obs. tive. W. Gr. Gr. § 134; JELF, § 596, 3. 7 Ovv. 5 3 Ἐκ παλαιοῦ. Ξενόω, 1 aor. pass. Optative (oratio obliqua). W. Gr. Gr. § 156. First 4 Da 6 Κατά. 9. To words concerning friendship. 10 Having received libations [σñoνdaí] and a right hand.' 11. Was present? 12 Συγκείμενον χωρίον. 14 Χαμαί. 15 Πόα τις. 17 Στολή. 20 Μαλα 236 'Seeing. 18 YTоTiOnμ, Participle pres. act. gen. abs. 13 Οἱ περὶ αὐτόν. 19 Ραπτά. Ἐντρυφάν, aor. 1 act. 26 Ἔχειν. they bid each other good morning.27 Pharnabazus having then extended his hand, Agesilaus returned the compliment; 28 whereupon 29 Pharnabazus, as he was the older, opened the conference: 30 Agesilaus, and all Lacedæmonians present, I was your friend and ally, when you were at war 31 with the Athenians; I strengthened 32 your naval power 33 by subsidies, and on land, fighting in person on horseback,35 I aided you in driving the enemy into the sea. And you cannot 37 accuse me of having ever acted 3 or spoken double towards you, like 39 Tissaphernes.' 27 Αλλήλοις χαίρειν προσείπον. 25 Αντιπροτείνειν [δεξίαν]. 28' δὲ τοῦτο. 33 Ναυτικόν. 30 *Αρχεσθαι λόγου. 31 Πολεμεῖν. 36. With you I pursued' [Karadıwreiv]. 35 6 38 29 Μετὰ 32 Made strong. 'Myself from the horse."' 37 Οὐκ ἔχειν. 38 Ποιή 'After acting thus,1 I am now treated in such a manner by you, that I have not even a dinner in my own country, unless, like the wild beasts, I can gather3 something of what you may chance to leave. The fine mansions and parks,6 full of trees and of wild beasts, which my father left me, and in which I rejoiced, all these I see partly cut-down,9 partly burnt. If, then, I do not understand either religion 10 or justice, 10 do you teach me, in what sense these acts become1o men who know how to return 13 favours.'14 Such were his words; and Agesilaus at length 15 replied: "I believe you know, Pharnabazus, that in the Grecian states, as elsewhere,16 men become one 1'Having been such' 8 5 2 Διάκειμαι. 3 Evλλéyeobai, fut. middle, 4"Os-av, with conjunctive. W. Gr. Gr. § 177, b. * Οἰκήματα. 7 Παράδεισοι. Εὐφραίνομαι. 8 Tà μèv―rà dé. 10 Τὰ ὅσια- τὰ δίκαια. 6 perf. pass. part. 13 Αποδίδωμι. 14 Χάριτες. 11 Όπως. • Κατακόπτω, 12 Are of? another's guests; and these men, when the states go to war, wage war with their countries and with those entertained by them; 17 and, should it so chance, they have sometimes 18 even slain one another. Thus we have been compelled of late,19 while at war 20 with your sovereign, to consider all his possessions as those of an enemy.21 Yet we should be very glad 22 to become friends with you. Now, if you were obliged 23 to receive us as masters in exchange for 24 the king as a master, I would not have advised 25 you thus; but you have now an opportunity, 26 by siding 27 with us, to live in the enjoyment of 28 your own property, making prostrations before 29 no one, nor having a master. Indeed,30 to be free, I believe to be worth all the money 20 Partic. pres. act. 24 ̓Αλλάξασθαι. 28 Καρπούμενος. 5 XIII. 6 Since, Athenians, it seems good to you to court the friendship of1 the Lacedæmonians, it appears to me that it is right to consider, how that friendship may endure3 the longest possible time. If, then, we were to regulate our agreements by the standard of our mutual interest, we should thus, in all probability, be most likely to continue 1o [friends]. Now, the other [points] have mostly been agreed upon, and the question 12 now turns on the supre 11 6 9 1 Ποιεῖσθαι φίλους. Όπως. 3 Συμμένειν, fut. indic. 4'Οτιπλεῖστον. 5 Accus. W. Gr. Gr. § 141, a. • Ποιήσασθαι, conjunctive with ἐὰν, In that way in which it 9 Κατὰ τὸ εἰκός. 10 Συμμένειν, W. Gr. Gr. § 177, b. * Συνθήκας, 11 Συνομολογείν, perf. pass. |