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 142 ELIS A.D LACEDAEMON [v shall add it to the provisions of it. Whatever the cities agree upon in common shall hold good, 48 Thus the peace and the alliance were concluded. The Connthians re- Nevertheless the previous treaty be- fuse to join the Argives twccn the Lacedacmonians and the inthcAthemanaUiame. Athenians was not on that account renounced h,y either part}^ The Corinthians, although allies of the Argives, took no part in the new alliance ; they had already refused to swear to an offensive and defensive alliance which the Eleans, Argives, and Mantineans had previously made with one another. They said that they were satisfied with the original defensive alliance which bound them only to assist one another when attacked, but not to join in offensive movements. Thus the Corinthians severed themselves from the allies, and were again beginning to turn their thoughts to the Lace- daemonians. 49 During the summer the Olympic games were celebrated, the Olympiad being that in which An- The Lacedaetnomatts, , a 1 • • f are excluded from the ai-Qsthenes, an Arcadian, won his first Olympic games on the victory in the pancratium. The Lace- groi.nd that they had daemonians were excluded from the attacked Phynns and 1 1 1 t-i entered Leprcumdtu-ing temple by the Eleans, and so could the Olympic truce, and neither Sacrifice nor contend in the had refused to pay the games. For they had refused to pay fine imposed upon them. , „ 1 • 1 i- /^i • the fine which, according to Olympic law, the Eleans had imposed upon them, alleging that they had brought an armed force against the fortress of Phyrcus, and had introduced some hoplites of their own into Lepreum during the Olympic truce. The fine amounted to two thousand minac"^, being two minae^' for each hoplite, which is the penalty imposed by the law. The Lacedae- monians sent envoys who argued that the sentence was unjust, for at the time when their troops entered Lepreum the truce had not been announced at Lacedaemon. The » About /C6,66o. *> About Cs 12s.