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[2] In fact they divided the cities and the soldiers that were levied for the war into ten parts.1 The first part included the Lacedaemonians, the second and third the Arcadians, the fourth the Eleians, the fifth the Achaeans. Corinthians and Megarians supplied the sixth, the seventh the Sicyonians and Phliasians and the inhabitants of the promontory called Acte,2 the eighth the Acarnanians, the ninth the Phocians and Locrians, and the last of all the Olynthians and the allies who lived in Thrace. They reckoned one hoplite to two light-armed, and one horseman as equivalent to four hoplites.3

1 For other members of the league see Beloch, Griechische Geschichte (2), 3.1.108 and note 1.

2 On the Argolid peninsula, inhabited by people of Epidaurus, Methone, and Troezen.

3 This reckoning (see Xen. Hell. 5.2.21 and Xen. Hell. 6.2.16) gives a commutation rate payable by a state that does not send its normal contingent to the league force. Three Aeginetan obols (or 4 1/2 Athenian) per day was the rate for one hoplite.

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