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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: conspicuous a retinue that Agesilaus, any one would have supposed, was
the private person and Lysander the king. All this was maddening to
Agesilaus, as was presently plain. As to the rest of the Thirty,
jealousy did not suffer them to keep silence, and they put it plainly
to Agesilaus that the super-regal splendour in which Lysander lived
was a violation of the constitution. So when Lysander took upon
himself to introduce some of his petitioners to Agesilaus, the latter
turned them a deaf ear. Their being aided and abetted by Lysander was
sufficient; he sent them away discomfited. At length, as time after
time things turned out contrary to his wishes, Lysander himself
perceived the position of affairs. He now no longer suffered that
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