[682] Xen. Hellen. vii, 4, 12.
[683] It had been taken from Elis by Agis, at the peace of 399 B.C. after his victorious war (Xen. Hellen. iii, 2, 31).
[684] Pausanias, vi, 22, 3.
[685] Xen. Hellen. vii, 4, 13-18; Diodor. xv, 77.
[686] Xen. Hellen. vii, 4, 26.
[687] Xen. Hellen. vii, 4, 27.
The Thebans who are here mentioned must have been soldiers in garrison at Tegea, Megalopolis, or Messênê. No fresh Theban troops had come into Peloponnesus.
[688] Thucyd. v, 68; Xen. Rep. Laced, xii, 3; xiii, 6.
[689] The seizure of Kromnus by the Lacedæmonians, and the wound received by Archidamus, are alluded to by Justin, vi, 6.
[690] Xen. Hellen. vii, 4, 20-25. Ὡς δὲ, πλησίον ὄντων, ἀναβοήσας τις τῶν πρεσβυτέρων εἶπε—Τί δεῖ ἡμᾶς, ὦ ἄνδρες, μάχεσθαι, ἀλλ’ οὐ σπεισαμένους διαλυθῆναι; ἄσμενοι δὴ ἀμφότεροι ἀκούσαντες, ἐσπείσαντο.