Hiero The Tyrant And Other Treatises (Penguin Classics) - Plot & Excerpts
Achievements of this kind do not need supporting evidence: the mere mention of them is enough to win instant belief. However, I shall now try to present a picture of the virtue which resided in his soul, because it was this that motivated all these achievements and prompted him to feel such a passionate desire for morality and abhorrence for immorality. Agesilaus was so religious that even his enemies trusted his oaths [2] and treaties more than they did their own ties of friendship. Although they were reluctant to meet <, for instance, when dealing with one another>,* they would put themselves into Agesilaus’ hands. To allay any disbelief, I wish actually to mention some specific cases involving particularly eminent people. First, then, when Spithridates the Persian [3] was faced with what he regarded as the monstrous behaviour of Pharnabazus, who was arranging to marry the Persian king’s daughter, but still intended to have Spithridates’ daughter as an unmarried concubine, he entrusted himself, his wife, his children and his assets [4] to Agesilaus.
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