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 210 HISTORY OF GREECE. opposite party were slain, while Kallibius with the remainder maintained himself near the town- wall, and in possession of the gate on the side towards Mantinea. To that city he had before de- spatched an express, entreating aid, while he opened a parley with the opponents. Presently the Mantinean force arrived, and was admitted within the gates ; upon which Stasippus, seeing that he could no longer maintain himself, escaped by another gate towards Pallantium. He took sanctuary with a few friends in a neighbor- ing temple of Artemis, whither he was pursued by his adversaries, who removed the roof, and began to cast the tiles down upon them. The unfortunate men were obliged to surrender. Fettered and placed on a cart, they were carried back to Tegea, and put on their trial before the united Tegeans and Mantineans, who condemned them and put them to death. Eight hundred Tegeans, of the de- feated party, fled as exiles to Sparta. 1 Such was the important revolution which now took place at Te- gea ; a struggle of force on both sides, and not of discussion, as was in the nature of the Greek oligarchical governments, where scarce any serious change of policy in the state could be brought about without violence. It decided the success of the Pan- Arcadian movement, which now proceeded with redoubled enthusiasm. Both Mantinea and Tegea were cordially united in its favor ; though Or- ehomenus, still strenuous in opposing it, hired for that purpose, as well as for her own defence, a body of mercenaries from Corinth mder Polytropus. A full assembly of the Arcadian name was convoked at a small town called Asea, in the mountainous district west of Tegea. It appears to have been numerously attended ; for we hear of one place, Eutaea (in the district of Mount Msenalus, 2 and near the borders of Laconia), from whence every single male adult went to the assembly. It was here that the consummation of the Pan- Arcadian confederacy was finally determined ; though Orchomenus and Hersea still stood aloof. 3 There could hardly be a more fatal blow to Sparta than this loss to herself, and transfer to her enemies, of Tegea, the most powerful of her remaining allies. 4 To assist the exiles and avenge Stasip- 1 Xen. Hcllen. vi, 5, 8, 9, 10. - Pausanias, viii, 27, 3. 3 Xen. Hellen. vi, 5, 11, 12. 4 Xen. Hellen. vii, 2, 2. See the prodigious anxiety manifested by the Lacedaemonians respecting the sure adhesion of Tegea (Thucyd. v, 64).