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JOO C/IRYSIS, THE ARGIVE PRIESTESS [iv appointed Clcaridas the son of Cleonymus governor of Amphipolis, and Pasitelidas** the son of Hegesander governor of Torone. 133 During the same summer the Thebans dismantled the wall of the Thespians, charging them Harshness and ui- • 1 a 1 • • 't-i • gratitude o/thcThcbans ^ith Athenian tendencies. This was to:cards the Tiicsf,iaiis. an objcct which they always had in Buruing of the teruple ^j^w, and now they had their oppor- 0/ Here near Argos. . . , n r -I'l tunity, because the flower of the 1 hes- pian army had fallen in the battle of Delium , During the same summer the temple of Here near Argos was burnt down ; Chrysis the priestess had put a light too near the sacred garlands, and had then gone to sleep, so that the whole place took fire and was consumed. In her fear of the people she fled that very night to Phlius ; and the Argives, as the law provided, appointed another priestess named Phaeinis. Chrysis had been priestess during eight years of the war and half of the ninth when she became an exile. Towards the close of the summer Scione was completely invested, and the Athenians, leaving a guard, retired with the rest of their army. 134 In the following winter the Athenians and Lacedae- Indeeisive action be- moniaiis remained inactive, in con- twcen the Trgcans and sequence of the armistice ; but the Mantineans. Mantineans and the Tegeans with their respective allies fought a battle at Laodicium in the terri- tory of Orestheum ; the victory was disputed. For the troops of both cities defeated the allies on the wing opposed to them, and both erected trophies, and sent spoils to Delphi. The truth is that, although there was considerable slaughter on both sides, and the issue was still undecided when night put an end to the conflict, the Tegeans encamped on the field and at once erected " Reading, according to Dobrcc's conjecture, TlaantXibitv, not 'Ettit*- k'ihav. Pasitelidas is mentioned, v. 3, as governor of Torond ^ Cp. iv. 96 mcd.