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 i9-2a] OPPOSITION OF THE CHALCIDIANS 119 goras, Menas, and Philocharidas, to Chalcidice, commanded Clearidas to deliver up Amphipolis to The LaccdaanoniaHS the Athenians, and the other cities to restoi-e their prisoners, accept the articles of the treaty which bttt Clearidas refuses to 11 J.I r> .^ ,1 deliver up Amphipolis, severally concerned them. But they ^„j ^^ cLkidian did not approve of the terms, and cities will not accept the refused. Clearidas, who acted in the '^O'- interest of the Chalcidians, would not give up the place, and said that it was not in his power to do so against their will. Accompanied by envoys from the Chalcidian cities, he himself went direct to Lacedaemon, intending to defend hmiself in case Ischagoras and his colleagues should accuse him of insubordination ; he also wanted to know whether the treaty could still be reconsidered. On his arrival he found that it was positively concluded, and he himself was sent back to Thrace by the Lacedaemonians, who commanded him to give up Amphipolis, or, if he could not, at any rate to withdraw all the Peloponnesian forces from the place. So he returned in haste. The representatives of the other allies were present at 22 Lacedaemon, and the Lacedaemonians ji,g ^///^.^ „,.g ^,-5. urged the reluctant states to accept the satisfied ; but the Lace- treaty. But they refused for the same ^""O'""^^ M""f; « , - 1 • • 1 1 reneival of hostilities reasons as before % and msisted that y,.^,,, Argos, dmmss they must have more equitable condi- them and form an tions. Finding that they would not ««"^^ '^'"' ^i"'e"s- come in, the Lacedaemonians dismissed them, and pro- ceeded on their own account to make an alliance with the Athenians. They thought that the Argives, whose hostile intentions had been manifested by their refusal to renew the peace at the request of Ampelidas and Lichas, the Lacedaemonian envoys who had gone thither, being now unsupported by the Athenians, would thus be least dangerous and that the rest of Peloponnesus would be least likely to stir. For the Athenian alliance, to which they would otherwise have had recourse, would now be closed VOL. II. K
 * Cp. V. 17 fin.