aged, we will turn
to the men of Tegea.

(3) For the restoration of Mantinea, see Freeman, "Fed. Gov." iv. p.
198; Grote, "H. G." x. 283 foll.

(4) See above, V. ii. 1, sub anno B.C. 386.

(5) = 731 pounds: 5 shillings. See Busolt, op. cit. p. 199.

There were in Tegea two political parties. The one was the party of
Callibius and Proxenus, who were for drawing together the whole Arcadian
population in a confederacy, (6) in which all measures carried in
the common assembly should be held valid for the individual component
states. The programme of the other (Stasippus's) party was to leave
Tegea undisturbed and in the enjoyment of the old national laws.
Perpetually defeated in the Sacred College, (7) the party of Callibius
and Proxenus were persuaded that if only the commons met they would gain
an easy victory by an appeal to the multitude; and in this faith they
proceeded to march out the citizen soldiers. (8) At sight of this
Stasippus and his friends on their side armed in opposition, and proved
not inferior in numbers. The result was a collision and battle, in which
Proxenus and some few others with him were slain and the rest put to
flight; though the conquerors did not pursue, for Stasippus was a
man who did not care to stain his hands with the blood of his
fellow-citizens. (9)

(6) Although the historian does not recount the foundation of
Megalopolis (see Pausanias and Diodorus), the mention of the
common assembly of the League {en to koino} in this passage and,
still more, of the Ten Thousand (below, "Hell." VII. i. 38),
implies it. See Freeman, op. cit. iv. 197 foll.; Grote, "H. G." x.
306 foll., ii. 599; "Dict. of Geog." "Megalopolis." As to the date
of its foundation Pausanias (VIII. xxvii. 8) says "a few months
after the battle of Leuctra," before midsummer B.C. 370; Diodorus
(xv. 72) says B.C. 368. The great city was not built in a day.
Messene, according to Paus. IV. xxvii. 5, was founded between the
midsummers of B.C. 370 and B.C. 369.

(7) Lit. "in the Thearoi." For the Theari, see Thuc. v. 47, Arnold's
note; and "C. I. G." 1756 foll.; and for the revolution at Tegea
here recounted, see Grote, "H. G." x. 285 foll.

(8) Or, "they mustered under arms."

(9) Or, "opposed to a wholesale slaughter of the citizens."

Callibius and his friends had retired under the fortification walls and
gates facing Mantinea; but, as their opponents made no f