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[5] There came also at this time to aid the Thebans an allied contingent from Thessaly, fifteen hundred infantry, and five hundred horsemen, commanded by Jason.1 He persuaded both the Boeotians and the Lacedaemonians to make an armistice and so to guard against the caprices of Fortune.

1 According to Xen. Hell. 6.4.20-26, Jason came after the battle of Leuctra, and there is no mention of an armistice.

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