ers or otherwise, it must be settled, but if
one allied city should have a quarrel with another allied city, it
must be referred to some third city thought impartial by both parties.
Private citizens shall have their disputes decided according to the laws
of their several countries.

The treaty and above alliance concluded, each party at once released
everything whether acquired by war or otherwise, and thenceforth acting
in common voted to receive neither herald nor embassy from the Athenians
unless they evacuated their forts and withdrew from Peloponnese, and
also to make neither peace nor war with any, except jointly. Zeal was
not wanting: both parties sent envoys to the Thracian places and to
Perdiccas, and persuaded the latter to join their league. Still he did
not at once break off from Athens, although minded to do so upon seeing
the way shown him by Argos, the original home of his family. They also
renewed their old oaths with the Chalcidians and took new ones: the
Argives, besides, sent ambassadors to the Athenians, bidding them
evacuate the fort at Epidaurus. The Athenians, seeing their own men
outnumbered by the rest of the garrison, sent Demosthenes to bring them
out. This general, under colour of a gymnastic contest which he arranged
on his arrival, got the rest of the garrison out of the place, and shut
the gates behind them. Afterwards the Athenians renewed their treaty
with the Epidaurians, and by themselves gave up the fortress.

After the defection of Argos from the league, the Mantineans, though
they held out at first, in the end finding themselves powerless without
the Argives, themselves too came to terms with Lacedaemon, and gave up
their sovereignty over the towns. The Lacedaemonians and Argives, each a
thousand strong, now took the field together, and the former first went
by themselves to Sicyon and made the government there more oligarchical
than before, and then both, uniting, put down the democracy at Argos and
set up an oligarchy favourable to Lacedaemon. These events occurred at
the close of the winter, just before spring; and the fourteenth year of
the war ended. The next summer the people of Dium, in Athos, revolted
from the Athenians to the Chalcidians, and the Lacedaemonians settled
affairs in Achaea in a way more agreeable to the interests of their
country. Meanwhile the popular party at Argos little by little
gathered new consistency and courage, and waited for the moment of the
Gymn