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61.
After this arrived a thousand Athenian heavy
infantry and three hundred horse, under the command of Laches and
Nicostratus; whom the Argives, being nevertheless loth to break the truce with the
Lacedaemonians, begged to depart, and refused to bring before the people, to
whom they had a communication to make, until compelled to do so by the
entreaties of the Mantineans and Eleans, who were still at Argos.
[2]
The Athenians, by the mouth of Alcibiades their ambassador there present,
told the Argives and the allies that they had no right to make a truce at
all without the consent of their fellow-confederates, and now that the
Athenians had arrived so opportunely the war ought to be resumed.
[3]
These arguments proving successful with the allies, they immediately
marched upon Orchomenos, all except the Argives, who, although they had
consented like the rest, stayed behind at first, but eventually joined the
others.
[4]
They now all sat down and besieged Orchomenos, and made assaults upon it; one of their reasons for desiring to gain this place being that hostages
from Arcadia had been lodged there by the Lacedaemonians.
[5]
The Orchomenians, alarmed at the weakness of their wall and the numbers of
the enemy, and at the risk they ran of perishing before relief arrived,
capitulated upon condition of joining the league, of giving hostages of
their own to the Mantineans, and giving up those lodged with them by the
Lacedaemonians.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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