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59.
Discovering this, the Argives came up from
Nemea, day having now dawned.
On their way they fell in with the troops of the Phliasians and
Corinthians, and killed a few of the Phliasians, and had perhaps a few more
of their own men killed by the Corinthians.
[2]
Meanwhile the Boeotians, Megarians, and Sicyonians, advancing upon Nemea
according to their instructions, found the Argives no longer there, as they
had gone down on seeing their property ravaged, and were now forming for
battle, the Lacedaemonians imitating their example.
[3]
The Argives were now completely surrounded; from the plain the Lacedaemonians and their allies shut them off from their
city; above them were the Corinthians, Phliasians, and Pellenians; and on the side of Nemea the Boeotians, Sicyonians, and Megarians.
Meanwhile their army was without cavalry, the Athenians alone among the
allies not having yet arrived.
[4]
Now the bulk of the Argives and their allies did not see the danger of
their position, but thought that they could not have a fairer field, having
intercepted the Lacedaemonians in their own country and close to the city.
[5]
Two men, however, in the Argive army, Thrasylus, one of the five generals,
and Alciphron, the Lacedaemonian Proxenus, just as the armies were upon the
point of engaging, went and held a parley with Agis and urged him not to
bring on a battle, as the Argives were ready to refer to fair and equal
arbitration whatever complaints the Lacedaemonians might have against them,
and to make a treaty and live in peace in future.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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