[781] Herod. i. 66. καταφρονήσαντες Ἀρκάδων κρέσσονες εἶναι, ἐχρηστηριάζοντο ἐν Δέλφοισι ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ Ἀρκάδων χωρῇ.
[782] Herod. i. 67; Pausan. iii. 3, 5; vii. 45, 2.
Herodotus saw the identical chains suspended in the temple of Athênê Alea at Tegea.
[783] Herod. i. 69-70.
[784] Herod. ix. 26.
[785] Xenoph. Hellen. v. 2, 19. Ὥσπερ Ἀρκάδες, ὅταν μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν ἴωσι, τά τε αὑτῶν σώζουσι καὶ τὰ ἀλλότρια ἁρπάζουσι, etc.
This was said to the Lacedæmonians about ten years before the battle of Leuktra.
[786] Herod. i. 82.
[787] Pausan. ii. 25, 1.
[788] Pausan. iii. 7, 5.