[472] Plutarch, Agesil. c. 5.
[473] Xen. Hellen. iii, 5, 5; Pausan. iii, 9, 1.
[474] Herodot. i, 68; vii, 159; Pausan. iii, 16, 6.
[475] Xen. Hellen. iii, 4, 3, 4; iii, 5, 5; Plutarch, Agesilaus, c. 6; Pausan. iii, 9, 2.
[476] Xen. Hellen. iii, 4, 5, 6; Xen. Agesilaus, i, 10.
The term of three months is specified only in the latter passage. The former armistice of Derkyllidas had probably not expired when Agesilaus first arrived.
[477] Pausan. vi, 3, 6.
[478] Xen. Hellen. ii, 1, 7. This rule does not seem to have been adhered to afterwards. Lysander was sent out again as commander in 403 B.C. It is possible, indeed, that he may have been again sent out as nominal secretary to some other person named as commander.
[479] Plutarch, Agesilaus, c. 7.
[480] The sarcastic remarks which Plutarch ascribes to Agesilaus, calling Lysander “my meat-distributor” (κρεοδαίτην), are not warranted by Xenophon, and seem not to be probable under the circumstances (Plutarch, Lysand. c. 23; Plutarch, Agesil. c. 8).