Justly may the man be counted blessed who was in love with glory from early
 youth and won more of it than any man of his age; who, being by nature very
 covetous of honour, never once knew defeat from the day that he became a
 king; who, after living to the utmost limit of human life, died without one
 blunder to his account, either concerning the men whom he led or in dealing
 with those on whom he made war. I propose to go through the story of his
 virtue again, and to summarize it, in order that the praise of it may be
 more easily remembered.
 Agesilaus reverenced holy places even when
 they belonged to an enemy, thinking that he ought to make allies of the gods
 no less in hostile than in friendly countries.
 To suppliants of the gods, even if his foes,
 he did no violence, believing it unreasonable to call robbers of temples
 sacrilegious and yet to consider those who dragged suppliants from altars
 pious men.