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Io8 LIST OF ALLIES ON EITHER SIDE [ll B.C. 431. to be present, there it seemed to him that all things were ■ ^' at a stand. For the general indignation against the Athenians was intense ; some were longing to be delivered from them, others fearful of falling under their sway. Such was the temper which animated the Hellenes, and List of the allies on such Were the preparations made by either side. the two powers for the war. Their respective allies were as follows : — The Lacedaemonian confederacy included all the Peloponnesians with the exception of the Argives and the Achaeans — they were both neutral ; only the Achaeans of Pellene took part with the Lacedaemonians at first ; afterwards all the Ach aeans joined them*. Beyond the borders of the Peloponnese, the Megarians, Phocians, Locrians, Boeotians, Ambraciots, Leucadians, and Anactorians were their allies. Of these the Corinthians, Megarians, Sicyonians, Pellenians, Eleans, Ambraciots, and Leucadians provided a navy, the Boeotians, Phocians, and Locrians furnished cavalry, the other states only infantry. The allies of the Athenians were Chios, Lesbos, Plataea, the Messeniansof Naupactus, the greater part of Acarnania, Corcyra, Zacynthus, and cities in many other countries which were their tributaries. There was the maritime region of Caria, the adjacent Dorian peoples, Ionia, the Hellespont, the Thracian coast, the islands that lie to the east within the line of Pelopon- nesus and Crete, including all the Cyclades with the exception of Melos and Thera. Chios, Lesbos, and Corcyra furnished a navy ; the rest, land forces and money. Thus much concerning the two confederacies, and the character of their respective forces. JO Immediately after the aftair at Plataea the Lacedae- The Lacedaemonians monlans Sent round word to their summon their allies to Peloponnesian and other allies, bidding meet at the Isthmus. ^^^^ ^^^jp ^^^^^^ ^^^ provide all things necessary for a foreign expedition, with the object » Cp. V. 82 init.