48.
Thus the peace and the alliance were concluded. Nevertheless the previous treaty between1 the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians was not on that account renounced by either party.
[2]
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.
[3]
Thus the Corinthians severed themselves from the allies, and were again beginning to turn their thoughts to the Lacedaemonians.
1 The Corinthians refuse to join the Argives in the Athenian alliance.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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