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[2] The Arcadians now appointed Lycomedes their general, gave him the corps they called their elite,1 five thousand in number, and took the field against Pellene2 in Laconia. Having taken the city by force, they slew the Lacedaemonians who had been left behind there as a garrison, over three hundred men, enslaved the city, devastated the countryside, and returned home before assistance came from the Lacedaemonians.

1 See chap. 62.2.

2 Pellana in the Laconian dialect. Situated on the Eurotas River on the road from Sparta to Arcadia. See Xen. Hell. 7.2.2.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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