Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...foraged the contrie. This againe did a litle revive the citie of Sparta with some hope, to make that it should not Epaminondas utterly dispaire. But shortly after, Epaminondas invaded invadeth' tne contrie of Laconia, with fortie thowsand footemen well ttfreecor armet, besides an infinite number of others light armed, and ten thow-an(i naked people, that followed his campe for the spoyle: sande men. so that in all, there were about three score and tenne thowsande fighting men that came in with him to invade Laconia. It was well neere sixe hundred yeares sith the Dorians possessed Lacedaemon, and in all that time till then they never saw enemies in their contrie that durst invade them: but then they sacked and burnt all that came in their way, even unto the river of Eurotas, and hard adjoyning unto Sparta, and no man durst come out to resist them. For Agesilaus (as Theopompus wryteth) would not suffer the Lacedaemonians to goe out to fight against such a tempest and furie of warre, but having fortified the middest of the citie, and garded every end of the streetes with souldiers, he paciently bare all the bragges and threates of the Thebans, which challenged him out to fight, and bad him come into the fielde to defende his contrie, that onely was the cause of all these their calamities, having him selfe procured this warre. If this went to Agesilaus hart, no lesse grievous were these troubles to him that rose within the citie. As the cries and running toe and froe of the old men, which were mad to see that they did before their eyes: and of sely women also, which no grounde nor place could hold, but ranne up and downe, as straught of their wittes, to heare the noise the enemies made, and to see the fire which they raised all the fieldes...