city. Every man shall swear by the most binding oath of
his country, seventeen from each city. The oath shall be as follows; "I
will abide by this agreement and treaty honestly and without deceit."
In the same way an oath shall be taken by the Lacedaemonians and their
allies to the Athenians: and the oath shall be renewed annually by both
parties. Pillars shall be erected at Olympia, Pythia, the Isthmus, at
Athens in the Acropolis, and at Lacedaemon in the temple at Amyclae.

10. If anything be forgotten, whatever it be, and on whatever point, it
shall be consistent with their oath for both parties, the Athenians and
Lacedaemonians, to alter it, according to their discretion.

The treaty begins from the ephoralty of Pleistolas in Lacedaemon, on the
27th day of the month of Artemisium, and from the archonship, of Alcaeus
at Athens, on the 25th day of the month of Elaphebolion. Those who
took the oath and poured the libations for the Lacedaemonians were
Pleistoanax, Agis, Pleistolas, Damagetis, Chionis, Metagenes, Acanthus,
Daithus, Ischagoras, Philocharidas, Zeuxidas, Antippus, Tellis,
Alcinadas, Empedias, Menas, and Laphilus: for the Athenians, Lampon,
Isthmonicus, Nicias, Laches, Euthydemus, Procles, Pythodorus, Hagnon,
Myrtilus, Thrasycles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, Iolcius, Timocrates,
Leon, Lamachus, and Demosthenes.

This treaty was made in the spring, just at the end of winter, directly
after the city festival of Dionysus, just ten years, with the difference
of a few days, from the first invasion of Attica and the commencement of
this war. This must be calculated by the seasons rather than by trusting
to the enumeration of the names of the several magistrates or offices of
honour that are used to mark past events. Accuracy is impossible where
an event may have occurred in the beginning, or middle, or at any period
in their tenure of office. But by computing by summers and winters, the
method adopted in this history, it will be found that, each of these
amounting to half a year, there were ten summers and as many winters
contained in this first war.

Meanwhile the Lacedaemonians, to whose lot it fell to begin the work
of restitution, immediately set free all the prisoners of war in their
possession, and sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to
the towns in the direction of Thrace, to order Clearidas to hand over
Amphipolis to the Athenians, and the rest of their allies each to accept
the treaty as i