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51 ALLIANCE OF ATHENS, ARGOS, ETC 51 in c:ie auxiliary troops shall be required and sent under this ireaty, ihe city sending shall furnish their maintenance for the (pace of thirty days, from the day of their entrance upon the territory of the city requiring. Should their services be needed for a longer period, the city requiring shall furnish their mainte- nance, at the rate of three .ZEginrean oboli for each hoplite, light- armed or archer, and of one ./Eginajan drachma or six oboli for each horseman, per day. The city requiring shall possess the command, so long as the service required shall be in her territory. But if any expedition shall be undertaken by joint resolution, then the command shall be shared equally between all. Such were the substantive conditions of the new alliance. Provision was then made for the oaths, by whom ? where ? when ? in what words ? how often ? they were to be taken. Athens was to swear on behalf of herself and her allies; but Argos, Elis, and Hantineia, with their respective allies, were to swear by separate cities. The oaths were to be renewed every four years ; by Athens, within thirty days before each Olympic festi- val, at Argos, Elis, and Mantineia ; by these three cities, at Athens, ten days before each festival of the greater Panathenica. " The words of the treaty of peace and alliance, and the oaths sworn, shall be engraven on stone columns, and put up in the temples of each of the four cities ; and also upon a brazen col umn, to be put up by joint cost at Olympia, for the festival now approaching." " The four cities may, by joint consent, make any change they please in the provisions of this treaty, without violating their oaths."' The conclusion of this new treaty introduced a greater degree of complication into the grouping and association of the Grecian cities than had ever before been known. The ancient Spartan confederacy, and the Athenian empire still subsisted. A peace tense and ] hrase here deserve notice, as contrasted with the phrase in the former part of the treaty ruv Zvupaxuv uv apxovciv enuripoi. The clause imposing actual obligation to hinder the passage of troops, required to be left open for application to the actual time. 1 Thucyd. v, 47.