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 816 HISTORY OF GREECE. rate heap and placed within the Lacedaemonian line. 1 He was, however, soon relieved from doubt by a herald coming from the Thebans to solicit the customary truce for the burial of theii dead ; the understood confession of defeat. The request was im- mediately granted ; each party paid the last solemnities to its own dead, and the Spartan force was then withdrawn from Bocotia. Xenophon does not state the loss on either side, but Diodorus gives it at six hundred on the side of the confederates, three hundred and fifty on that of the Lacedaemonians. 2 Disqualified as he was by his wounds for immediate action, Age- siktus caused himself to be carried to Delphi, where the Pythian games were at that moment going on. He here offered to Apollo the tithe of the booty acquired during his two years' campaigns in Asia ; a tithe equal to one hundred talents. 3 Meanwhile the pole- march Gylis conducted the army first into Phokis, next on a pre- datory excursion into the Lokrian territory, where the nimble attack of the Lokrian light troops, amidst hilly ground, inflicted upon his troops a severe check, and cost him his life. After this the contingents in the army were dismissed to their respective homes, and Agesilaus himself, when tolerably recovered, sailed with the Peloponnesians homeward from Delphi across the Co- rinthian Gulf. 4 He was received at Sparta with every demonstra- tion of esteem and gratitude, which was still farther strengthened by his exemplary simplicity and exact observance of the public discipline ; an exactness riot diminished either by long absence or 1 Xen. Agesil. ii, 15. Tore [IEV ovv (/cat yap }v fjdj] dips) ioi)f TUV iroT^Euiuv v/cpoi)f <7tj 0u/layyof, edenrvoTroiTjaavTO KOI Schneider in his note on this passage, as well as ad. Xen. Hellen. iv, 3, 21 condemns the expression TUV 7roAe//iwv as spurious and unintelligible. But in my judgment, these words bear a plain and appropriate meaning, which I have endeavored to give in the text. Compare Plutarch, Agesil. o. 19. 4 Diodor. xiv, 84. 3 Xen. Hellen. iv, 3, 21 ; Plutarch, Agesil. c. 19. The latter says elf Ae?.0oi)f attKO[j.ia$ Jv&iav uyofievuv, etc. Manso, Dr. Arnold, and others, contest the accuracy of Plutarch in this assertion respecting the time of year at which the Pythian games were celebrated, up on grounds which icem to me very insufficient.
 * Xen. Hellen. iv, 3. 22. 23 ; iv, *, 1