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About the same time, Lycomedes1 of Tegea prevailed upon the Arcadians to form a single confederacy2 with a common council to consist of ten thousand men empowered to decide issues of war and peace.

1 According to Xen. Hell. 7.1.23, Lycomedes was from Mantineia (also Paus. 8.27.2 and Diodorus himself, chap. 62.2). Lycomedes urged the Arcadians, who at this time entered the services of other states in great numbers as mercenaries, to devote themselves to strengthening their own state.

2 See for the Arcadian League Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.88 f., or better Glotz, Hist. gr. 3.154-156. Also Freeman, History of Federal Government, 154 ff.

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