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 COMPLICATED STATE KELATIONS. 293 with the Arcadians ; while Athens was at war with Thebes, yet in alliance with Sparta as well as with Arcadia. The Argeiang were in alliance with Thebes and Arcadia, and at war with Sparta ; the Eleians were on unfriendly terms, though not yet at actual war, with Arcadia yet still (it would appear) in alliance with Thebes. La.?tly, the Arcadians themselves were losing their internal coope- ration and harmony one with another, which had only so recently begun. Two parties were forming among them, under the old con- flicting auspices of Mantinea and Tegea. Tegea, occupied by a Theban harmost and garrison, held strenuously with Megalopolis and Messene as well as with Thebes, thus constituting a strong and united frontier against Sparta. As the Spartans complained of their Peloponnesian allies, for urging the recognition of Messene as an independent state, so they were no less indignant with the Persian king ; who, though still calling himself their ally, had inserted the same recognition in the rescript granted to Pelopidas. 1 The Athenians also were dissatisfied with this rescript. They had (as has been already stated) condemned to death Timagoras, one of their envoys who had accompanied Pelopidas, for having received bribes. They now availed themselves of the opening left for them in the very words of the rescript, to send a fresh embassy up to the Persian court, and solicit more favorable terms. Their new envoys, com- municating the fact that Timagoras had betrayed his trust and had been punished for it, obtained from the Great King a fresh rescript, pronouncing Amphipolis to be an Athenian possession instead of a free city. 2 Whether that other article also in the 1 Xenophon, Enc. Agesil. ii, 30. tvopifc rfj Hepcry 6iKTjv emtiijaeiv Kal TUV 7rp6, Kal on vvv, avfj.fj.a^og elvai (j>aanuv, eTrerarre Meaa^vrjv 8 This second mission of the Athenians to the Persian court (pursuant to the invitation contained in the rescript given to Pelopidas, (Xen. Hellen. vii, 1, 37), appears to me implied in Demosthenes, Fals. Leg. p. 384, s. 150, p. 420, s. 283 ; Or. De Halonneso, p. 84, s. 30. If the king of Persia was informed that Timagoras had been put to death by his countrymen on returning to Athens, and if he sent down (KO.TE- irep^ev) a fresh rescript about Amphipolis, this information can only have been communicated, and the new rescript only obtained, by a second embassy sent to him from Athens. Perhaps the Lacedaemonian Kallias may have accompanied this secow}