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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: [24] See Grote, "H. G." x. 356.
[25] Or, "regarded themselves as the very perfection of soldiery."
[26] In reference to "Hell." III. ii. 25 foll., see Freeman, op. cit.
p. 201, and below, "Hell." VII. iv. 12 (B.C. 365); Busolt, op.
cit. p. 186 foll., in reference to Lasion.
[27] Busolt, p. 150.
B.C. 368. Self-esteem amounting to arrogance--such was the spirit
which animated each section of the allies, when a new phase was
introduced by the arrival of Philiscus[28] of Abydos on an embassy
from Ariobarzanes[29] with large sums of money. This agent's first
step was to assemble a congress of Thebans, allies, and Lacedaemonians
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