What length of time was required to complete the erection and establishment of either city, we are not informed.
Diodorus places the foundation of Megalopolis in 368 B.C. (xv, 72).
[508] Xen. Hellen. vii, 4, 36.
[509] Isokrates (Archidamus), Or. vi, s. 129.
[510] Xen. Hellen. vi, 5, 34, 35.
[511] Xen. Hellen. vi, 5, 38-48.
[512] Xen. Hellen. vi, 5, 35. Οἱ μέντοι Ἀθηναῖοι οὐ πάνυ ἐδέξαντο, ἀλλὰ θροῦς τις τοιοῦτος διῆλθεν, ὡς νῦν μὲν ταῦτα λέγοιεν· ὅτε δὲ εὖ ἔπραττον, ἐπέκειντο ἡμῖν.
[513] Xen. Hellen. vi, 5, 35. Μέγιστον δὲ τῶν λεχθέντων παρὰ Λακεδαιμονίων ἐδόκει εἶναι, etc.
[514] Demosthenes cont. Neær. p. 1353.
Xenokleides, a poet, spoke in opposition to the vote for supporting Sparta (ib.).