Lysander's
authority and assistance soon obtained his request, so that he was
sent away with the thirty Spartans, of whom Lysander was at once
the chief, not only because of his power and reputation, but also
on account of his friendship with Agesilaus, who esteemed his
procuring him this charge a greater obligation, than that of
preferring him to the kingdom.
Whilst the army was collecting to the rendezvous at Geraestus,
Agesilaus went with some of his friends to Aulis, where in a dream
he saw a man approach him, and speak to him after this manner: "O
king of the Lacedaemonians, you cannot but know that, before
yourself, there hath been but one general captain of the whole of
the Greeks, namely, Agamemnon; now, since you succeed him in the
same office and command of the same men, since you war against the
same enemies, and begin your expedition from the same place, you
ought also to offer such a sacrifice, as he offered before he
weighed anchor." Agesilaus at the same moment remembered that the
sacrifice which Agamemnon offered was his own daughter, he being so
directed by the oracle.
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