It only remains for me, under the form of headings,[1] to review the
topic of this great man's virtue, in hopes that thus his eulogy may
cling to the memory more lastingly.

[1] Or, as others think, "in a summary."

Agesilaus reverenced the shrines and sacred places even of the enemy.
We ought, he said, to make the gods our allies on hostile no less than
on friendly soil.

He would do no violence to a suppliant, no, not even if he were his
own foe; since how irrational must it be to stigmatise robbers of
temples as sacrilegious and yet to regard him who tears the suppliant
from the altar as a pious person.

One tenet he never wearied of repeating: the gods, he said, are not
less pleased with holy deeds than with pure victims.

In the day of his prosperity his thoughts were not raised higher than
befits a man; he gave thanks to the gods; and offered more victims
when he had nothing to fear than he registered vows in time of
apprehension.

He was accustomed in the midst of anxiety to wear an aspect of gaiety,
but, when the victory was won, of gentleness.

Amongst friends his warmest greeting was reserved, not for the most
powerful, but for the most ardent; and if he hated, it was not him
who, being evil entreated, retaliated, but one who, having had