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33-25] ALLIANCE OF ATHENS AND SPARTA 121 alliance, whatever it be, this may be done without violation of their oaths.' On behalf of the Lacedaemonians there took the oaths, 24 Pleistoanax, Agis, Pleistolas, Damaer- „ .^ . /-I • • n/r A , Ratification. etus, Chionis, Metagenes, Acanthus, Daithus, Ischagoras, Philocharidas, Zeuxidas, Antippus, Alcinadas, Tellis, Empedias, Menas, Laphilus. On behalf of the Athenians there took the oaths, Lampon, Isthmio- nicus, Laches, Nicias, Euthydemus, Procles, Pythodorus, Hagnon, Myrtilus, Thras3'cles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, lolcius, Timocrates, Leon, Lamachus, Demosthenes. This alliance was made shortly after the treaty; at the same time the Athenians restored to r> / *• /• ./ Acstoratton of the the Lacedaemonians the prisoners prisoners taken at taken at Sphacteria. The summer of Sphactcria. the eleventh year then began. During the previous ten years the first war, of which the history has now been written, went on without intermission. The treaty and the alliance which terminated the ten 25 years' war were made in the Ephorate r -nx • . ^ , T I J ii First Corinth and of Pleistolas at Lacedaemon, and the ^^^^^ Peioponnes,an Archonship of Alcaeus at Athens, cities, and afterwards Those who accepted the treaty were ""^ Athenians them- , i_ i ii /^ • it • J selves, show signs of now at peace; but the Cormthians and discontent several of the Peloponnesian cities did what they could to disturb the arrangement. And so before long a new cause of quarrel set the allies against the Lacedaemonians ; who also, as time went on, incurred the suspicion of the Athenians, because . • . , ^ , , , , The tvar renewed. in certam particulars they would not execute the provisions of the treaty. For six years and ten months the two powers abstained from invading each other's territories, but abroad the cessation of arms was intermittent, and they did each other all the harm which they could. At last they were absolutely compelled to break the treaty made at the end of the first ten years, and engaged once more in open war. K 2