47.
The Athenians, Argives, Mantineans, and
Eleans, acting for themselves and the allies in their respective empires,
made a treaty for a hundred years, to be without fraud or hurt by land and
by sea.
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1.
It shall not be lawful to carry on war, either for the Argives, Eleans,
Mantineans, and their allies, against the Athenians, or the allies in the
Athenian empire; or for the Athenians and their allies against the Argives, Eleans,
Mantineans, or their allies, in any way or means whatsoever.The Athenians, Argives, Eleans, and Mantineans shall
be allies for a hundred years upon the terms following:—
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2.
If an enemy invade the country of the Athenians, the Argives, Eleans, and
Mantineans shall go to the relief of Athens, according as the Athenians may
require by message, in such way as they most effectually can, to the best of
their power.
But if the invader be gone after plundering the territory, the offending
state shall be the enemy of the Argives, Mantineans, Eleans, and Athenians,
and war shall be made against it by all these cities; and no one of the cities shall be able to make peace with that state,
except all the above cities agree to do so.
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3.
Likewise the Athenians shall go to the relief of Argos, Mantinea, and Elis,
if an enemy invade the country of Elis, Mantinea, or Argos, according as the
above cities may require by message, in such way as they most effectually
can, to the best of their power.
But if the invader be gone after plundering the territory, the state
offending shall be the enemy of the Athenians, Argives, Mantineans, and
Eleans, and war shall be made against it by all these cities, and peace may
not be made with that state except all the above cities agree to it.
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4.
No armed force shall be allowed to pass for hostile purposes through the
country of the powers contracting, or of the allies in their respective
empires, or to go by sea, except all the cities—that is to say,
Athens, Argos, Mantinea, and Elis—vote for such passage.
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5.
The relieving troops shall be maintained by the city sending them for
thirty days from their arrival in the city that has required them, and upon
their return in the same way; if their services be desired for a longer period the city that sent for
them shall maintain them, at the rate of three Aeginetan obols per day for a
heavy-armed soldier, archer, or light soldier, and an Aeginetan drachma for
a trooper.
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6.
The city sending for the troops shall have the command when the war is in
its own country; but in case of the cities resolving upon a joint expedition the command
shall be equally divided among all the cities.
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7.
The treaty shall be sworn to by the Athenians for themselves and their
allies, by the Argives, Mantineans, Eleans, and their allies, by each state
individually.
Each shall swear the oath most binding in his country over full-grown
victims; the oath being as follows:‘I will
stand by the alliance and its articles, justly, innocently, and sincerely,
and I will not transgress the same in any way or means
whatsoever.’
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The oath shall be taken at Athens by the
Senate and the magistrates, the Prytanes administering it; at Argos by the Senate, the Eighty, and the Artynae, the Eighty
administering it; at Mantinea by the Demiurgi, the Senate, and the other magistrates, the
Theori and Polemarchs administering it; at Elis by the Demiurgi, the magistrates, and the Six Hundred, the Demiurgi
and the Thesmophylaces administering it.
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The oaths shall be renewed by the Athenians going to Elis, Mantinea, and
Argos thirty days before the Olympic games; by the Argives, Mantineans, and Eleans going to Athens ten days before the
great feast of the Panathenaea.
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The articles of the treaty, the oaths, and the alliance shall be inscribed
on a stone pillar by the Athenians in the citadel, by the Argives in the
market-place, in the temple of Apollo; by the Mantineans in the temple of Zeus, in the market-place; and a brazen pillar shall be erected jointly by them at the Olympic games
now at hand.
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Should the above cities see good to make any addition to these articles,
whatever all the above cities shall agree upon, after consulting together,
shall be binding.
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