against it--"Only, in that case,
there must be mutual exchange of hostages and other pledges."

(11) I.e. according to custom on the eve of battle. See "Pol. Lac."
xiii. 8.

(12) Lit. "they were splendid fellows to look at." See "Anab." II.
iii. 3.

When this proposal had been agreed to and carried out, the two armies
retired for the night--the Asiatics to Tralles in Caria, the Hellenes to
Leucophrys, where was a temple (13) of Artemis of great sanctity, and
a sandy-bottomed lake more than a furlong in extent, fed by a spring of
ever-flowing water fit for drinking and warm. For the moment so much was
effected. On the next day they met at the place appointed, and it was
agreed that they should mutually ascertain the terms on which either
party was willing to make peace. On his side, Dercylidas insisted
that the king should grant independence to the Hellenic cities; while
Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus demanded the evacuation of the country by
the Hellenic army, and the withdrawal of the Lacedaemonian governors
from the cities. After this interchange of ideas a truce was entered
into, so as to allow time for the reports of the proceedings to be sent
by Dercylidas to Lacedaemon, and by Tissaphernes to the king.

(13) Lately unearthed. See "Class. Rev." v. 8, p. 391.

B.C. 401 (?). Whilst such was the conduct of affairs in Asia under the
guidance of Dercylidas, the Lacedaemonians at home were at the same
time no less busily employed with other matters. They cherished a
long-standing embitterment against the Eleians, the grounds of which
were that the Eleians had once (14) contracted an alliance with the
Athenians, Argives, and Mantineans; moreover, on pretence of a sentence
registered against the Lacedaemonians, they had excluded them from
the horse-race and gymnastic contests. Nor was that the sum of their
offending. They had taken and scourged Lichas, (15) under the following
circumstances:--Being a Spartan, he had formally consigned his chariot
to the Thebans, and when the Thebans were proclaimed victors he stepped
forward to crown his charioteer; whereupon, in spite of his grey hairs,
the Eleians put those indignities upon him and expelled him from the
festival. Again, at a date subsequent to that occurrence, Agis being
sent to offer sacrifice to Olympian Zeus in accordance with the bidding
of an oracle, the Eleians would not suffer him to offer prayer for
victory in war, asserting that the ancient law and