Fed. Gov." 203, note 1.

Out of the many vessels at his service he had chosen the one he liked
best, and by the terms of contract was entitled to land at any point he
might desire; but for some reason, selected the exact spot where a body
of Mantinean exiles lay. Thus he died; but the alliance on which he had
set his heart was already consummated.

Now an argument was advanced by Demotion (5) in the Assembly of Athens,
approving highly of the friendship with the Arcadians, which to his
mind was an excellent thing, but arguing that the generals should be
instructed to see that Corinth was kept safe for the Athenian people.
The Corinthians, hearing this, lost no time in despatching garrisons of
their own large enough to take the place of the Athenian garrisons at
any point where they might have them, with orders to these latter to
retire: "We have no further need of foreign garrisons," they said. The
garrisons did as they were bid.

(5) Of Demotion nothing more, I think, is known. Grote ("H. G." x.
397) says: "The public debates of the Athenian assembly were not
favourable to the success of a scheme like that proposed by
Demotion, to which secrecy was indispensable. Compare another
scheme" (the attempted surprise of Mitylene, B.C. 428), "divulged
in like manner, in Thuc. iii. 3."

As soon as the Athenian garrison troops were met together in the city
of Corinth, the Corinthian authorities caused proclamation to be made
inviting all Athenians who felt themselves wronged to enter their names
and cases upon a list, and they would recover their dues. While things
were in this state, Chares arrived at Cenchreae with a fleet. Learning
what had been done, he told them that he had heard there were designs
against the state of Corinth, and had come to render assistance. The
authorities, while thanking him politely for his zeal, were not any
the more ready to admit the vessels into the harbour, but bade him sail
away; and after rendering justice to the infantry troops, they sent
them away likewise. Thus the Athenians were quit of Corinth. To the
Arcadians, to be sure, they were forced by the terms of their alliance
to send an auxiliary force of cavalry, "in case of any foreign attack
upon Arcadia." At the same time they were careful not to set foot on
Laconian soil for the purposes of war.

The Corinthians had begun to realise on how slender a thread their
political existence hung. They were overmastered b