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 4r, 42] ARGIVES NEGOTIATE AT LACEDAEMON 135 they had done once before when both sides claimed the victory ; but the conquered party was not to be pursued over their own border. The Lacedaemonians at first thought that this proposal was nonsense ; however, as they were desirous of having the friendship of Argos on any terms, they assented, and drew up a written treaty. But they desired the envoys, before any of the provisions took effect, to return and lay the matter before the people of Argos ; if they agreed, they were to come again at the Hyacinthia and take the oaths. So they departed. While the Argives were thus engaged, the envoys of the 42 Lacedaemonians — Andromedes, Phae- indignation of the dimus, and Antimenidas— who were Athenians at the scpar- . ., , • T-i. 1.1 «'^ alliance and at the appomted to receive Panactum and the ^,,^^/.,,b« of Panac prisoners from the Boeotians, and give tum,whichshotddhave them up to the Athenians, found been restored intact. Panactum already demolished by the Boeotians. They alleged that the Athenians and Boeotians in days of old had quarrelled about the place, and had sworn that neither of them should inhabit it, but both enjoy the use of it. However, Andromedes and his colleagues conveyed the Athenian prisoners who were in the hands of the Boeotians to Athens, and restored them ; they further announced the destruction of Panactum, ^ maintaining that they were restoring that too ^, inasmuch as no enemy of the Athenians could any longer dwell there. Their words raised a violent outcry among the Athenians ; the}' felt that the Lacedae- monians were dealing unfairly with them in two respects: first, there was the demolition of Panactum, which should have been delivered standing ; secondly, they were informed of the separate alliance which the Lacedaemonians had made with the Boeotians, notwithstanding their pro- mise that they would join in coercing those who did not accept the peace. They called to mind all their other » Or, 'maintaining that this,' i.e. its destruction, 'was equivalent to its restoration ' («ai tovto, ttjI' KaOalpiaiv, ano^oaiv tivai). VOL. II. L