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60.
The Argives who made these statements did so
upon their own authority, not by order of the people, and Agis on his
accepted their proposals, and without himself either consulting the
majority, simply communicated the matter to a single individual, one of the
high officers accompanying the expedition, and granted the Argives a truce
for four months, in which to fulfil their promises; after which he immediately led off the army without giving any explanation
to any of the other allies.
[2]
The Lacedaemonians and allies followed their general out of respect for the
law, but amongst themselves loudly blamed Agis for going away from so fair a
field （the enemy being hemmed in on every side by infantry and
cavalry） without having done anything worthy of their strength.
[3]
Indeed this was by far the finest Hellenic army ever yet brought together; and it should have been seen while it was still united at Nemea, with the
Lacedaemonians in full force, the Arcadians, Boeotians, Corinthians,
Sicyonians, Pellenians, Phliasians and Megarians, and all these the flower
of their respective populations, thinking themselves a match not merely for
the Argive confederacy, but for another such added to it.
[4]
The army thus retired blaming Agis, and returned every man to his home.
[5]
The Argives however blamed still more loudly the persons who had concluded
the truce without consulting the people, themselves thinking that they had
let escape with the Lacedaemonians an opportunity such as they should never
see again; as the struggle would have been under the walls of their city, and by the
side of many and brave allies.
[6]
On their return accordingly they began to stone Thrasylus in the bed of the
Charadrus, where they try all military causes before entering the city.
Thrasylus fled to the altar, and so saved his life; his property however they confiscated.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 6.56
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- LSJ, ἑαυτοῦ
- LSJ, καλός
- LSJ, λεύω
- LSJ, παρατυγχάνω
- LSJ, χα?́ραδρ-ος
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