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 128 THE PRISONERS FROM THE ISLAND [v without them. The Boeotians on receiving this request desired the Corinthians to say no more about aUiance with the Argives. But they went together to Athens, where the Boeotians failed to obtain the armistice for the Corinthians, the Athenians replying that the original truce "^ extended to them, if they were allies of the Lace- daemonians. The Boeotians however did not renounce their own armistice, although the Corinthians expostu- lated, and argued that such had been' the agreement. Thus the Corinthians had only a suspension of hostilities with Athens, but no regular truce. 33 During the same summer the Lacedaemonians with The Lacedaemonians their whole force, commanded by their free the Pnrrhasians king Pleistoanax the son of Pausanias, frotft the Mantineans. i ,i -n • ^*" ' made war upon the rarrhasians ot Arcadia, who were subjects of the Mantineans''. They had been invited by a faction among the Parrhasians ; and moreover they wanted to demolish a fortress in the Parrhasian town of Cypsela, threatening the Laconian district of Sciritis, which the Mantineans had built and garrisoned. The Lacedaemonians devastated the country of the Parrhasians ; and the Mantineans, leaving the custody of their own city to a force of Argives, themselves garrisoned the territory of their allies. But being unable to save either the fort of Cypsela or the cities of Parrhasia, they went home again ; whereupon the Lacedaemonians, having demolished the fort and restored the independence of the Parrhasians, returned home likewise. 34 In the course of the same summer the troops serving in The Helots who sensed Thrace, which had gone out under ivithBrasidasareentan- Brasidas and Were brought home by cipaied and settled at cieaHdas after the conclusion of peace, Lepreiiui. The captives. from the island are amved at Laccdacmon. I he Lace- for a time deprived of daemonians passed a vote that the citizenship. Helots who had fought under Brasidas should be free and might dwell wherever they pleased. » Cp. V. i8. ^ Cp. V. 29 init.