days before the great feast of the
Panathenaea. The articles of the treaty, the oaths, and the alliance
shall be inscribed on a stone pillar by the Athenians in the citadel,
by the Argives in the market-place, in the temple of Apollo: by the
Mantineans in the temple of Zeus, in the market-place: and a brazen
pillar shall be erected jointly by them at the Olympic games now at
hand. Should the above cities see good to make any addition in these
articles, whatever all the above cities shall agree upon, after
consulting together, shall be binding.

Although the treaty and alliances were thus concluded, still the treaty
between the Lacedaemonians and Athenians was not renounced by either
party. Meanwhile Corinth, although the ally of the Argives, did not
accede to the new treaty, any more than she had done to the alliance,
defensive and offensive, formed before this between the Eleans, Argives,
and Mantineans, when she declared herself content with the first
alliance, which was defensive only, and which bound them to help each
other, but not to join in attacking any. The Corinthians thus stood
aloof from their allies, and again turned their thoughts towards
Lacedaemon.

At the Olympic games which were held this summer, and in which the
Arcadian Androsthenes was victor the first time in the wrestling and
boxing, the Lacedaemonians were excluded from the temple by the Eleans,
and thus prevented from sacrificing or contending, for having refused
to pay the fine specified in the Olympic law imposed upon them by the
Eleans, who alleged that they had attacked Fort Phyrcus, and sent heavy
infantry of theirs into Lepreum during the Olympic truce. The amount of
the fine was two thousand minae, two for each heavy-armed soldier, as
the law prescribes. The Lacedaemonians sent envoys, and pleaded that the
imposition was unjust; saying that the truce had not yet been proclaimed
at Lacedaemon when the heavy infantry were sent off. But the Eleans
affirmed that the armistice with them had already begun (they
proclaim it first among themselves), and that the aggression of the
Lacedaemonians had taken them by surprise while they were living
quietly as in time of peace, and not expecting anything. Upon this the
Lacedaemonians submitted, that if the Eleans really believed that they
had committed an aggression, it was useless after that to proclaim the
truce at Lacedaemon; but they had proclaimed it notwithstanding, as
believing nothing of the