{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0032.tlg009.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg009.local001","title":"Ἀγησίλαος","titleGreek":"Ἀγησίλαος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Xenophon","authorityName":"XENOPHON Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0032-xenophon/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0032-xenophon/","editors":["Edgar Carew Marchant"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1920","volume":"5","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operaomniarecogn05xenouoft/page/34/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Xenophon. Ἀγησίλαος. ed. Edgar Carew Marchant. Opera Omnia, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg009.local001","excerpt":"οἶδα μὲν ὅτι τῆς Ἀγησιλάου ἀρετῆς τε καὶ δόξης οὐ ῥᾴδιον ἄξιον ἔπαινον γράψαι, ὅμως δʼ ἐγχειρητέον. οὐ γὰρ ἂν καλῶς ἔχοι εἰ ὅτι τελέως ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς ἐγένετο, διὰ τοῦτο οὐδὲ μειόνων ἂν τυγχάνοι ἐπαίνων. περὶ μὲν οὖν εὐγενείας αὐτοῦ τί ἄν τις μεῖζον καὶ κάλλιον εἰπεῖν ἔχοι ἢ ὅτι ἔτι καὶ νῦν τοῖς προγόνοις ὀνομαζομένοις ἀπομνημονεύεται ὁπόστος ἀφʼ Ἡρακλέους ἐγένετο, καὶ τούτοις οὐκ ἰδιώταις ἀλλʼ ἐκ βασιλέων βασιλεῦσιν; ἀλλὰ μὴν οὐδὲ ταύτῃ γʼ ἄν τις ἔχοι καταμέμψασθαι αὐτοὺς ὡς βασιλεύουσι μέν, πόλεως δὲ τῆς ἐπιτυχούσης· ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ τὸ γένος αὐτῶν τῆς πατρίδος ἐντιμότατον, οὕτω καὶ ἡ πόλις ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι ἐνδοξοτάτη· ὥστε οὐ δευτέρων πρωτεύουσιν, ἀλλʼ ἡγεμόνων ἡγεμονεύουσιν. τῇδέ γε μὴν καὶ κοινῇ ἄξιον ἐπαινέσαι τήν τε πατρίδα καὶ τὸ γένος αὐτοῦ· ἥ τε γὰρ πόλις οὐδεπώποτε φθονήσασα τοῦ προτετιμῆσθαι αὐτοὺς ἐπεχείρησε καταλῦσαι τὴν ἀρχὴν αὐτῶν, οἵ τε βασιλεῖς οὐδεπώποτε μειζόνων ὠρέχθησαν ἢ ἐφʼ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/#tlg0032-tlg009-local001-11"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0032.tlg009.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032/tlg009/local001.json.gz"}}