And when the Corinthian exiles told him that the city was about to be
 surrendered to them and pointed to the engines with which they were
 confident of taking the walls, he would not make an assault, declaring that
 Greek cities ought not to be enslaved, but chastened. And if, he added,
 we are going to annihilate the erring members of our own race, let us
 beware lest we lack men to help in the conquest of the barbarians. Or again, if it is honourable to hate the
 Persian because in old days he set out to enslave Greece , and now allies himself with that
 side which offers him the prospect of working the greater mischief, makes
 gifts to those who, as he believes, will injure the Greeks most in return,
 negotiates the peace that he thinks most certain to produce war among us —
 well, everyone can see these things, but who except Agesilaus has ever
 striven either to bring about the revolt of a tribe from the Persian, or to
 save a revolting tribe from destruction, or by some means or other to
 involve the Great King in trouble so that he will be unable to annoy the
 Greeks? Nay, when his fatherland was actually at war with Greeks, he did not
 neglect the common good of Greece ,
 but went out with a fleet to do what harm he could to the barbarian.