forcement of Mantineans had sallied from the walls between Corinth
and Lechaeum to engage the peltasts, and had no sooner come under attack
than they swerved, losing some of their men as they made good their
retreat. The Lacedaemonians were unkind enough to poke fun at these
unfortunates. "Our allies," they said, "stand in as much awe of these
peltasts as children of the bogies and hobgoblins of their nurses." For
themselves, starting from Lechaeum, they found no difficulty in marching
right round the city of Corinth with a single Lacedaemonian division and
the Corinthian exiles.) (17)

(15) See Thuc. ii. 4.

(16) See Grote, ix. 472 note. Lechaeum was not taken by the
Lacedaemonians until the Corinthian long walls had been rebuilt by
the Athenians. Possibly the incidents in this section (S. 17)
occurred after the capture of Lechaeum. The historian introduces
them parenthetically, as it were, in illustration of his main
topic--the success of the peltasts.

(17) Or, adopting Schneider's conjecture, {estratopedeuonto}, add "and
encamping."

The Athenians, on their side, who felt the power of the Lacedaemonians
to be dangerously close, now that the walls of Corinth had been laid
open, and even apprehended a direct attack upon themselves, determined
to rebuild the portion of the wall severed by Praxitas. Accordingly
they set out with their whole force, including a suite of stonelayers,
masons, and carpenters, and within a few days erected a quite splendid
wall on the side facing Sicyon towards the west, (18) and then proceeded
with more leisure to the completion of the eastern portion.

(18) See Thuc. vi. 98.

To turn once more to the other side: the Lacedaemonians, indignant at
the notion that the Argives should be gathering the produce of their
lands in peace at home, as if war were a pastime, marched against them.
Agesilaus commanded the expedition, and after ravaging their territory
from one end to the other, crossed their frontier at Tenea (19) and
swooped down upon Corinth, taking the walls which had been lately
rebuilt by the Athenians. He was supported on the sea side by his
brother Teleutias (20) with a naval force of about twelve triremes, and
the mother of both was able to congratulate herself on the joint success
of both her sons; one having captured the enemy's walls by land and
the other his ships and naval arsenal by sea, on the same day. These
achievements sufficed Agesilaus