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 47] TREATY BETWEEN ATHENS AND ARGOS 141 ' V, The city which sent for the troops shall have the command when the war is carried on in her territory. Or, if the allied cities agree to send out a joint expedition, then the command shall be equally shared among all the cities. 'VI. The Athenians shall swear to the peace on their own behalf and on that of their allies ; the Argives, Mantin- eans, and Eleans, and their allies shall swear city by city. The oath shall be taken over full-grown victims, and shall be that oath which in the countries of the several contract- ing parties is deemed the most binding. The form of oath shall be as follows : — " I will be true to the alliance, and will observe the agree- ment in all honesty and without fraud or hurt ; I will not transgress it in any way or manner." ' At Athens the senate and the home magistrates shall swear, and the prytanes shall adminis- Provisions for the ter the oath ; at Argos the senate and raiification of the treaty the council of eighty and the artynae «"^>- ^/'««^^^- shall swear, and the eighty shall administer the oath ; at Mantinea the demiurgi and the senate and the other magis- trates shall swear, and the theori and the polemarchs shall administer the oath. At Elis the demiurgi and the supreme magistrates and the six hundred shall swear, and the demiurgi and the guardians of the law shall administer the oath. Thirty days before the Olympian games the Athen- ians shall go to Elis, to Mantinea, and to Argos, and renew the oath. Ten days before the Great Panathenaea the Argives, Eleans, and Mantineans shall go to Athens and renew the oath. The agreement concerning the treaty and the oaths and the alliance shall be inscribed on a stone column in the Acropolis by the Athenians, by the Argives on a similar column in the temple of Apollo in the Agora, and by the Mantineans in the temple of Zeus in the Agora. They shall together erect at Olympia a brazen column at the coming Olympic games. And if these cities think it desirable to make any improvement in the treat}', they