After the retirement of the enemy, none will
 deny that his conduct was marked by good sense. The marching and riding
 incidental to active service were no longer possible to a man of his years,
 but he saw that the state must have money if she was to gain an ally
 anywhere. So he applied himself to the business of raising money. At home he
 did all that ingenuity could suggest; and, if he saw any prospect of serving
 the state abroad, shrank from no measures that circumstances called for, and
 he was not ashamed to go out, not as a general, but as an envoy. And even as an envoy he accomplished work worthy of a great general. For
 instance, Autophradates laying siege to Ariobarzanes, an ally of Sparta , at Assos , took to his heels from fear of
 Agesilaus. Cotys for his part, besieging Sestos , while it was still in the hands of Ariobarzanes,
 broke up the siege and made off. With good reason, therefore, might the
 victorious envoy have set up a trophy once again to record these bloodless
 successes.