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Contents of the Fifteenth Book of Diodorus
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The truce which the Lacedaemonians and Athenians had concluded in the
earlier period1remained unshaken up
to this time. But now Sphodriades the Spartan, who had been placed in command and was by nature
flighty and precipitate, was prevailed upon by Cleombrotus,2 the king of the Lacedaemonians, without the consent of the ephors to occupy
the Peiraeus.
1 Cp. Book 14.110.4.
2 Other accounts are Xen. Hell. 5.4.20-21 and Plut. Pelopidas 14 and Plut. Agesilaus 24. Diodorus here as in the case of Phoebidas is suspicious of Spartan policy, while Xenophon and Plutarch both speak of Thebes as the instigator of the raid in order to embroil Athens and Sparta. Again Diodorus seems right in suspecting Sparta (cp. "leitende Kreise in Sparta" in Beloch, Griechische Geschichte （2）, 3.1.147 and Judeich, op. cit. 178). The inroad of Sphodrias (in Diodorus Sphodriades) was made (cp. Pearl Harbor) at the very time when three Spartan ambassadors were in Athens to negotiate. Their promises that Sparta would punish Sphodrias did much to assuage the anger of the Athenians at the moment.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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