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The Messenians together with the Helots
at first advanced against the city of Sparta,
assuming that they would take it because there would be no one to defend it; but when they
heard that the survivors were drawn up in a body with Archidamus the king and were ready for
the struggle on behalf of their native land, they gave up this plan, and seizing a stronghold
in Messenia they made it their base of operations and
from there continued to overrun Laconia. And the Spartans, turning for help to the Athenians, received from them
an army; and they gathered troops as well from the rest of their allies and thus became able to
meet their enemy on equal terms. At the outset they were much superior to the enemy, but at a
later time, when a suspicion arose that the Athenians were about to go over to the Messenians,
they broke the alliance with them, stating as their reason that in the other allies they had
sufficient men to meet the impendin