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 TRUCE FOR ONE YEAR. 433 themselves and their allies, in such manner that it only required to be adopted and ratified by the Athenians. The gem.ral prin- ciple of the truce was uti possidctis, and the conditions were in substance as follows : 1. Respecting the temple at Delphi, every Greek shall have the right to make use of it honestly and without fear, pursuant to the customs of his particular city. The main purpose of this stipulation, prepared and sent verbatim from Athens, was to allow Athenian visitors to go thither, which had been impossible during the war, in consequence of the hostility of the Bosotians l and Phocians : the Delphian authorities also were in the interest of Sparta, and doubtless the Athenians received no formal invitation to the Pythian games. But the Boeotians and Phocians were no parties to the truce : accordingly the Lacedaemonians, while accepting the article and proclaiming the general liberty in prin- ciple, do not pledge themselves to enforce it by arms as far as the Boeotians and Phocians are concerned, but only to try and per- suade them by amicable representations. The liberty of sacri- ficing at Delphi was at this moment the more welcome to the Athenians, as they seem to have fancied themselves under the displeasure of Apollo. 2 2. All the contracting parties will inquire out and punish, each according to its own laws, such persons as may violate the prop- erty of the Delphian god. 3 This article also is prepared at Athens, for the purpose seemingly of conciliating the favor of Sikyonian, and Epidaurian. The trace was accepted by the Athenian as- sembly, and sworn to at once by all the envoys as well as by three Athe nian strategi (aTceioaa'&ai, 6s av TLK a ft a ha raf Trpecr/Jetaf ev rut dy/ic/) raj xapovaac, iv, 118, 119) ; that day being fixed on as the commencement. The lunar months in different cities were never in precise agreement. ' See Aristophan. Aves, 188. 2 Thucyd. v, 1-32. They might perhaps believe that the occupation of Delium had given offence to Apollo. 3 Thucyd. iv, 118 Tlepl tie ruz xpips.;*,, fun Gtov iviftCA-ilnvai ono^ roi> ud IKOVVTCH il-evpf/aoftev, etc. Dr. Thirlwall (Hist. Gr. vol. iiL eh. xxiii, p. 273) thinks that this article has reference to past appropriation <*f the Delphian treasure by the Peloponnesian alliance, for warlike pur poses. Had such a reference been intended, we should probably have found tlie past participle, rot)f udiK^aavraf : whereas the present participle, as it now stands, is perfectly gene al, designating acts future and contingent VOL. vi. 19 28oc.