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While he was lingering in the territory of Corinth, he seized the Heraeum,The refugees in the Heraeum came out and surrendered of their own accord (Xenophon, Hell. iv. 5, 5). and as he was watching his soldiers carry off the prisoners and booty, messengers came from Thebes to treat for peace. But he had always hated that city, and thinking this an advantageous time also for insulting it, pretended neither to see nor hear its ambassadors when they presented themselves. But his pride soon had a fall;
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for the Thebans had not yet departed when messengers came to him with tidings that the Spartan division had been cut to pieces by Iphicrates.At Lechaeum the port of Corinth on the Corinthian gulf in 390 B.C. (Xenophon, Hell. iv. 5, 11-18). This was the greatest disaster that had happened to the Spartans in a long time; for they lost many brave men, and those men were overwhelmed by targeteers and mercenaries, though they were men-at-arms and Lacedaemonians.
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At once, then, Agesilaüs sprang up to go to their assistance, but when he learned that it was all over with them,He had marched till he was well within the plateau of Lechaeum (Xenophon, Hell. iv. 5, 8). he came back again to the Heraeum, and ordering the Boeotians then to come before him, gave them an audience. But they returned his insolence by making no mention of peace, but simply asking safe conduct into Corinth. Agesilaüs was wroth at this, and said: If you wish to see your friends when they are elated at their successes, you can do so tomorrow in all safety.
