COMPARISON OF POMPEY AND AGESILAUS.

Thus having drawn out the history of the lives of Age- silaus and Pompey, the next thing is to compare them ; and in order to this, to take a cursory view, and bring together the points in which they chiefly disagree ; which are these. In the first place, Pompey attained to all his greatness and glory by the fairest and justest means, owing his advancement to his own efforts, and to the fre- quent and important aid which he rendered Sylla, in deliv- ering Italy from its tyrants. But Agesilaus appears to have obtained his kingdom, not without offence both towards gods and towards men, towards these, by procuring judg- ment of bastardy against Leotychides, whom his brother had declared his lawful son, and towards those, by putting a false gloss upon the oracle, and eluding its sentence against his lameness. Secondly, Pompey never ceased to display his respect for Sylla during his lifetime, and ex- pressed it also after his death, by enforcing the honorable interment of his corpse, in despite of Lepidus, and by giv- ing his daughter in marriage to his son Faustus. But Agesilaus, upon a slight pretence, cast off Lysander with reproach and dishonor. Yet Sylla in fact had owed to Pompey's services, as much as Pompey ever received from him, whereas Lysander made Agesilaus king of Sparta, and general of all Greece. Thirdly, Pompey's transgres-

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