, if left in possession of their franchise. These were
therefore at once disfranchised, although some of them were in office at
the time, and thus placed under a disability to take office, or buy and
sell anything. After some time, however, the franchise was restored to
them.

The same summer the Dians took Thyssus, a town on Acte by Athos in
alliance with Athens. During the whole of this summer intercourse
between the Athenians and Peloponnesians continued, although each party
began to suspect the other directly after the treaty, because of the
places specified in it not being restored. Lacedaemon, to whose lot it
had fallen to begin by restoring Amphipolis and the other towns, had
not done so. She had equally failed to get the treaty accepted by her
Thracian allies, or by the Boeotians or the Corinthians; although she
was continually promising to unite with Athens in compelling their
compliance, if it were longer refused. She also kept fixing a time at
which those who still refused to come in were to be declared enemies
to both parties, but took care not to bind herself by any written
agreement. Meanwhile the Athenians, seeing none of these professions
performed in fact, began to suspect the honesty of her intentions, and
consequently not only refused to comply with her demands for Pylos, but
also repented having given up the prisoners from the island, and kept
tight hold of the other places, until Lacedaemon's part of the treaty
should be fulfilled. Lacedaemon, on the other hand, said she had done
what she could, having given up the Athenian prisoners of war in her
possession, evacuated Thrace, and performed everything else in her
power. Amphipolis it was out of her ability to restore; but she would
endeavour to bring the Boeotians and Corinthians into the treaty, to
recover Panactum, and send home all the Athenian prisoners of war in
Boeotia. Meanwhile she required that Pylos should be restored, or at all
events that the Messenians and Helots should be withdrawn, as her troops
had been from Thrace, and the place garrisoned, if necessary, by the
Athenians themselves. After a number of different conferences held
during the summer, she succeeded in persuading Athens to withdraw from
Pylos the Messenians and the rest of the Helots and deserters from
Laconia, who were accordingly settled by her at Cranii in Cephallenia.
Thus during this summer there was peace and intercourse between the two
peoples.

Next winter, howev