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38.
In the meantime it was decided by the
Boeotarchs, the Corinthians, the Megarians, and the envoys from Thrace first
to interchange oaths together to give help to each other whenever it was
required and not to make war or peace except in common; after which the Boeotians and Megarians, who acted together, should make
the alliance with Argos.
[2]
But before the oaths were taken the Boeotarchs communicated these proposals
to the four councils of the Boeotians, in whom the supreme power resides,
and advised them to interchange oaths with all such cities as should be
willing to enter into a defensive league with the Boeotians.
[3]
But the members of the Boeotian councils refused their assent to the
proposal, being afraid of offending Lacedaemon by entering into a league
with the deserter Corinth; the Boeotarchs not having acquainted them with what had passed at
Lacedaemon and with the advice given by Cleobulus and Xenares and the
Boeotian partisans there, namely, that they should become allies of Corinth
and Argos as a preliminary to a junction with Lacedaemon; fancying that, even if they should say nothing about this, the councils
would not vote against what had been decided and advised by the Boeotarchs.
[4]
This difficulty arising, the Corinthians and the envoys from Thrace
departed without anything having been concluded; and the Boeotarchs, who had previously intended after carrying this to try
and effect the alliance with Argos, now omitted to bring the Argive question
before the councils, or to send to Argos the envoys whom they had promised; and a general coldness and delay ensued in the matter.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), BOEOTARCHES
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), TRIBUS
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Smith's Bio, Cleobu'lus
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