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[6] Sphodriades with more than ten thousand soldiers attempted to occupy the Peiraeus at night,1 but he was detected by the Athenians and, failing in the attempt, returned without accomplishing anything. He was then denounced before the council of the Spartans, but since he had the kings to support him, he got off by a miscarriage of justice.2

1 Diodorus recounts the whole war from the raid of Sphodrias to the battle of Naxos under the year 377/6. The raid of Sphodrias probably took place in the spring of 378 when Cleombrotus was operating in Boeotia after the liberation of Thebes (December 379).

2 See for the influence of Cleombrotus and Archidamus, son of Agesilaus, in rescuing Sphodrias, Xen. Hell. 5.4.22-33; Plut. Agesilaus 25.

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