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 492 HISTORY OF GREECE. The Lacedaemonians and their allies shall also restore Pauak turn to the Athenians. G. The Athenians shall restore to Sparta Koryphasium, Ky- thera, Methone, Pteleum, Atalante, with all the captives in theii hands from Sparta or her allies. They shall farther release all Spartans or allies of Sparta now blocked up in Skione. 7. The Lacedaemonians and their allies shall also restore all the captives in their hands, from Athens or her allies. 8. Respecting Skione, Torone, Sermylus, or any other town in the possession of Athens, the Athenians may take their own measures. 9. Oaths shall be exchanged between the contracting parties, according to the solemnities held most binding in each city respec- tively, and in the following words : "I will adhere to this conven- tion and truce sincerely and without fraud." The oaths shall be annually renewed, and the terms of peace shall be inscribed on columns at Olympia, Delphi, and the Isthmus, as well as at Sparta and Athens. 10. Should any matter have been forgotten in the present convention, the Athenians and Lacedaemonians may alter it by mutual understanding and consent, without being held to violate their oaths. These oaths were accordingly exchanged : they were taken by seventeen principal Athenians, and as many Spartans, on behalf of their respective countries, on the 26th day of the month Arte- misius at Sparta, and on the 24th day of Elaphebolion at Athens, immediately after the urban Dionysia ; Pleistolas being ephor eponymus at Sparta, and Alkaeus archon eponymus at Athens. is restored is of course delivered up. But it is remarkable that this word Ttapidooav does not properly apply to the other cities : for they were not delivered up to Athens, they were only relinquished, as the clauses immedi- ately following farther explain. Perhaps there is a little Athenian pride in the use of the word, first to intimate indirectly that the Lacedaemonians were to deliver up various cities to Athens, then to add words afterwards, which show that the cities were only to be relinquished, not surrendered to Athens. The provision, for guaranteeing liberty of retirement anu carrying away of property, was of course intended chiefly for the Amphipolitans. who would naturally desire to emigrate, if the town had been actually rrstoreJ to Athens.