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 31,32] THE CORINTHIANS WAVER 127 the Chalcidians of Thrace joined ; but the Boeotians and the Megarians agreed to refuse", and, jealously watched by the Lacedaemonians, stood aloof; for they were well aware that the Lacedaemonian constitution was far more congenial to their own oligarchical form of government than the Argive democracy. During the same summer, and about this time, the 32 Athenians took Scione which they Capture of Sa'one. were blockading*', put to death all the RcstuKiiiou of the Del- grown-up men, and enslaved the '^"'^- ^''^ Tegeans ,, ., , , , refuse to join the neiv women and children ; they then gave ^i,.^,,^^ j^,,^ Cor/«- possession of the land to the Plataeans, thtans get frightened They also replaced the Delians in «"^ ^""'^ recourse to Delos^', moved partly by the defeats which the}' had sustained, partly by an oracle of the Delphic God. About this time too the Phocians and Locrians went to war. The Corinthians and Argives (who were now allies) came to Tegea, which they hoped to with- draw from the Lacedaemonian alliance, thinking that if they could secure so important a part of Peloponnesus they would soon have the whole of it. The Tegeans however said that they could have no quarrel with the Lace- daemonians ; and the Corinthians, who had hitherto been zealous in the cause, now began to cool, and were seriously afraid that no other Peloponnesian state would join them. Nevertheless they applied to the Boeotians and begged them to become allies of themselves and of the Argives, and generally to act with them ; they further requested that they would accompany them to Athens and procure an armistice terminable at ten days' notice, similar to that which the Athenians and Boeotians had made with one another shortly after the conclusion of the fifty years* peace. If the Athenians did not agree, then the Cor- inthians demanded of the Boeotians that they should renounce the armistice and for the future make no truce " Cp. V. 38 init. ^ Cp. iv. 130. "^ Cp. v.