Agesilaus

Ăgēsĭlāüs, i, m., = Ἀγησίλαος.

• One of the most valiant of the Spartan kings, who conquered the Persian satrap Tissaphernes, and the Athenians and Boeotians at Coronea. Plutarch and also Nepos wrote his life.—*
• II An epithet of Pluto (from his driving (ἄγω) all people into his kingdom), Lact. 1, 11, 31.

Agēsilāus, ī, m. (Ἀγησίλαος), I) Beiname des Pluto, Lenker od. Fürst der Völker, weil alle in sein Reich wandern u. unter seine Herrschaft kommen, Lact. 1, 11, 31 – II) König von Sparta, Sohn des spart. Königs Archidamus (aus der Familie der Prokliden), Überwinder des persischen Satrapen Tissaphernes am Paktolus in Asien (395 v. Chr.) u. später der Böotier, Athener u.a. Griechen bei Koronea in Böotien (394 v. Chr.), Nep. Ages. 1 sqq. Iustin. 6, 2, 4 sqq.

Ăgēsĭlāus, (11) ī, m. (Ἀγησίλαος), Agésilas ¶ 1 roi de Sparte : Nep. ¶ 2 surnom de Pluton (de ἄγω) : Lact. Inst. 1, 11, 31.

Agesilāus

(Ἀγησίλαος). The name of several kings of Sparta. (1) Agesilaüs who reigned about B.C. 886, and was contemporary with the legislation of Lycurgus.

(2) Son of Archidamus II., and succeeded his half-brother II. in B.C. 398, excluding, on the ground of spurious birth, and by the interest of Lysander, his nephew Leotychides. From B.C. 396 to 394 he carried on the war in Asia Minor with great success, but, in the midst of his conquests, was summoned home to defend his country against Thebes, Corinth, and Argos, which had been induced by Artaxerxes to take up arms against Sparta. In the year 394 he met and defeated, at Coronea in Boeotia, the allied forces. During the next four years he regained for his country much of its former supremacy, till at length the fatal battle of Leuctra, B.C. 371, overthrew forever the power of Sparta, and gave the supremacy for a time to Thebes. In 361 he crossed, with a body of Lacedaemonian mercenaries, into Egypt, where he died in the winter of 361-360, after a life of above eighty years and a reign of thirty-eight. In person Agesilaüs was small, mean-looking, and lame, on which last ground objection had been made to his accession, an oracle, curiously fulfilled, having warned Sparta of evils awaiting her under a “lame sovereignty.” In his reign, indeed, her fall took place, but not through him, for he was one of the best citizens and generals that Sparta ever had.

Agesilaus Agesilaus, son of Archidamus

• king of Sparta: Paus. 3.8.8-Paus. 3.10.2
• father of Archidamus: Paus. 6.4.9
• his claim to throne contested by Leotychides: Paus. 3.8.8-10
• lame of one foot: Paus. 3.8.10
• appointed to command Greek army in Asia: Paus. 3.9.1, Paus. 8.6.2
• tries to sacrifice to Artemis at Aulis: Paus. 3.9.3ff.
• defeats Persians in Asia: Paus. 3.9.5-7, Paus. 4.17.5
• returns through Thrace and Thessaly: Paus. 3.9.12
• defeats Boeotians at Coronea: Paus. 3.9.13
• marches against Corinth: Paus. 3.10.1
• helps Aetolians and compels Acarnanians to make peace: Paus. 3.10.2
• A. and Epaminondas: Paus. 9.13.2, Paus. 9.14.5
• distinguishes himself in Egypt: Paus. 3.10.2
• body brought home and buried splendidly: Paus. 3.10.2

Agesilaus(2), son of Doryssus

• king of Sparta: Paus. 3.2.4, Paus. 4.4.2