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[2] It was compulsion rather than sympathy that made them join the Lacedaemonians in their war against Athens and in crossing over to Asia with Agesilaus;1 they also followed the Lacedaemonians to Leuctra in Boeotia.2 Their distrust of the Lacedaemonians was shown on many occasions; in particular, immediately after the Lacedaemonian reverse at Leuctra they seceded from them and joined the Thebans. Though they did not fight on the Greek side against Philip and the Macedonians at Chaeroneia,3 nor later in Thessaly against Antipater, yet they did not actually range themselves against the Greeks.

1 396 B.C

2 371 B.C

3 338 B.C

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