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 164 SPART.l AND ARGOS AGAINST ATHENS [v B.C. 418. 'V. If any of the states, either within or without Pelo- ■ ^°' 3- ponnesus, have a dispute about a frontier, or any other matter, the difference shall be duly settled. But should a quarrel break out between two of the allied cities, they shall appeal to some state which both the cities deem to be impartial. 'VI, Justice shall be administered to the individual citizens of each state according to their ancestral customs.' 80 Thus the peace and the alliance were concluded, and -ri^j J the Lacedaemonians and Areives I he Lnccaacinoniaits o and Ar^'ivcs now act settled with each Other any difference together against the which they had about Captures made in Atlicitians. They in- ^,. . . eincetUeChalc,diane,ties '^e War, or about any other matter. and Pcrdkcas to join They now acted together, and passed them. Evacuation of ^ ^ote that no herald or embassy should be received from the Athenians, unless they evacuated the fortifications which they held in Peloponnesus and left the country ; they agreed also that they would not enter into alliance or make war except in concert. They were very energetic in all their doings, and jointly sent ambassadors to the Chalcidian cities in Thrace, and to Perdiccas whom they persuaded to join their confederacy. He did not, however, imme- diately desert the Athenians, but he was thinking of deserting, being influenced by the example of the Argives ; for he was himself of Argive descent •». The Argives and Lacedaemonians renewed the oaths formerly taken by the Lacedaemonians to the Chalcidians and swore new ones ^. The Argives also sent envoys to the Athenians bidding them evacuate the fortifications which they had raised at Epidaurus. They, seeing that their troops formed but a small part of the garrison, sent Demosthenes to bring them away with him. When he came he proposed to hold a gymnastic contest outside the fort ; upon this pretext he induced the rest of the garrison to go out, and then shut • Sec note. ^ Cp. i. 58 mcd ; v. 31 fin.