After mutual salutations, Pharnabazus had plenty of just complaints to make, since, although he had rendered the Lacedaemonians many great services in their war against the Athenians, his territory was now being ravaged by them.
Edition :
Plutarch Lives V: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 87), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1961 (first ed. 1917).
Remark :
perpetrator: The Paphlagonian soldiers are a thousand horseman and two thosuand targeteers, who Agesilaus II. received from Kotys, the king of the Paphlagonians (Plut. Ages. 11.2-3). victim: other: Pharnabazus is satrap (of Dascylium). See https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pharnabazus-e918620#e918640 long-term consequence: Because of this act of violence Pharnabazus initiates a conference with Agesilaus II. (Plut. Ages. 12.1-2).
