Lacedaemon and to
prosecute the war.

(28) See Hicks, 84, p. 152; Kohler, "C. I. A." ii. 51; Grote, "H. G."
x. 357; Curtius, "H. G." (Eng. tr.) iv. 458; Diod. xv. 90.

(29) See above, V. i. 28; "Ages." ii. 26.

(30) See Hicks, 86.

Whilst these matters were still pending, the second reinforcements from
Dionysius (31) arrived. There was a difference of opinion as to where
the troops should be employed, the Athenians insisting that they ought
to march into Thessaly to oppose the Thebans, the Lacedaemonians being
in favour of Laconia; and among the allies this latter opinion carried
the day. The reinforcement from Dionysius accordingly sailed round to
Laconia, where Archidamus incorporated them with the state troops and
opened the campaign. Caryae he took by storm, and put every one captured
to the sword, and from this point marching straight upon the Parrhasians
of Arcadia, he set about ravaging the country along with his Syracusan
supporters.

(31) See above, SS. 20, 22, p. 191 foll. The date is B.C. 368
according to Grote, "H. G." x. 362 foll.; al. B.C. 367.

Presently when the Arcadians and Argives arrived with succours, he
retreated and encamped on the knolls above Medea. (32) While he was
there, Cissidas, the officer in charge of the reinforcement from
Dionysius, made the announcement that the period for his stay abroad had
elapsed; and the words were no sooner out of his lips than off he set on
the road to Sparta. The march itself, however, was not effected without
delays, for he was met and cut off by a body of Messenians at a narrow
pass, and was forced in these straits to send to Archidamus and beg for
assistance, which the latter tendered. When they had got as far as the
bend (33) on the road to Eutresia, there were the Arcadians and Argives
advancing upon Laconia and apparently intending, like the Messenians, to
shut the Spartan off from the homeward road.

(32) Or, "Melea," or "Malea." E. Curtius conjectures {Meleas} for
{Medeas} of the MSS., and probably the place referred to is the
township of Malea in the Aegytis (Pausan. VIII. xxvii. 4); see
above, "Hell." VI. v. 24, "the Maleatid." See Dind. "Hist. Gr.,"
Ox. MDCCCLIII., note ad loc.; Curtius, "H. G." iv. 459; Grote, "H.
G." x. 362.

(33) Or, "the resting-place"; cf. mod. "Khan." L. and S. cf. Arist.
"Frogs," 113. "Medea," below, is probably "Malea," (see last
note).

Archidamus, debouching upon a flat