Nectanabis, then, was filled with admiration for the sagacity of Agesilaüs, and putting himself in the centre of the Greek array, charged forwards and easily routed his opponents.
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 :
victim: The Egyptian commander is a rival of Nectanabis who is proclaimed as king in Mendes. His army consists of a hundred thousand men. (Plut. Ages. 38.1) long-term consequence: Because his stratagem worked Agesilaus II. brings the same one to bear again upon the enemy (Plut. Ages. 39.4-5).
