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In the Peloponnese, the Lacedaemonians dispatched Polytropus as general to Arcadia with a thousand citizen hoplites and five hundred Argive and Boeotian refugees. He reached the Arcadian Orchomenus and guarded it closely since it was on friendly terms with Sparta.1

1 "The Orchomenians refused to be members of the Arcadian League on account of their enmity toward the Mantineans" (Xen. Hell. 6.5.11, trans. by Brownson, L.C.L.).

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