Again, if it is honourable in one who is a
 Greek to be a friend to the Greeks, what other general has the world seen
 unwilling to take a city when he thought that it would be sacked, or who
 looked on victory in a war against Greeks as a disaster? Now when a report reached Agesilaus that eight Lacedaemonians and near ten
 thousand of the enemy had fallen at the battle of Corinth , instead of showing pleasure,
 he actually exclaimed: Alas for thee, Hellas ! those who now lie dead were enough to defeat all
 the barbarians in battle had they lived!