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 33-35] DISPUTES ABOUT THE TREATY 129 Not long afterwards, they settled them, together with the Neodamodes, at Lepreum, which is on the borders of Laconia and Elis, being now enemies of the Eleans. Fearing lest their own citizens who had been taken in the island and had delivered up their arms might expect to be slighted in consequence of their misfortune, and, if they retained the privileges of citizens, would attempt revolu- tion, they took away the right of citizenship from them, although some of them were holding office at the time. By this disqualification they were deprived of their eligibility to offices, and of the legal right to buy and sell. In time, however, their privileges were restored to them. During this summer the Dictidians took Thyssus, a town 35 of Mount AthoS, which was in alliance The Lacedaemomatis with the Athenians. During the whole do not give up Amphi- summer intercourse continued between ■?*"^- '* '^'"J!"^ retain Fylos. lliey the Athenians and Peloponnesians. agyge however to with- But almost as soon as the peace was draiv the Messenians concluded both Athenians and Lace- «"^^^^"'-^- daemonians began to mistrust one another, because the places mentioned in the treaty were not given up. For the Lacedaemonians, who were to make restitution first, according to the lot, had not surrendered Amphipolis and the other less important places which they held, and had not made their allies in Chalcidice, nor the Boeotians, nor the Corinthians accept the treaty, but only kept declaring that they would join the Athenians in coercing them if they continued to refuse. They even fixed a time, though they did not commit themselves in writing, within which those who would not come into the treaty were to be declared the enemies of both parties. The Athenians, seeing that nothing was being really done, suspected the Lacedaemonians of dishonesty, and therefore they would not give up Pylos when the Lacedaemonians required it ; they even repented that the}' had restored the prisoners taken at Sphacteria, and resolved to keep the other places