Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.

And it pleased the people to entertain the men honourably, and to put the copy of their ambassage in publick records, to the end the people of the Lacedemonians might have a memorial thereof: furthermore we have written a copy thereof unto Simon the high priest.