for the present; he disbanded the army
of the allies and led the state troops home.

(19) Reading {Tenean}, Koppen's emendation for {tegean}. In the
parallel passage ("Ages." ii. 17) the text has {kata ta stena}.
See Grote, "H. G." ix. 471.

(20) See below, IV. viii. 11.

V

B.C. 390. (1) Subsequently the Lacedaemonians made a second expedition
against Corinth. They heard from the exiles that the citizens contrived
to preserve all their cattle in Peiraeum; indeed, large numbers derived
their subsistence from the place. Agesilaus was again in command of the
expedition. In the first instance he advanced upon the Isthmus. It
was the month of the Isthmian games, (2) and here he found the Argives
engaged in conducting the sacrifice to Poseidon, as if Corinth were
Argos. So when they perceived the approach of Agesilaus, the Argives and
their friends left the offerings as they lay, including the preparations
for the breakfast, and retired with undisguised alarm into the city
by the Cenchrean road. (3) Agesilaus, though he observed the movement,
refrained from giving chase, but taking up his quarters in the temple,
there proceeded to offer victims to the god himself, and waited until
the Corinthian exiles had celebrated the sacrifice to Poseidon, along
with the games. But no sooner had Agesilaus turned his back and retired,
than the Argives returned and celebrated the Isthmian games afresh;
so that in this particular year there were cases in which the same
competitors were twice defeated in this or that contest, or conversely,
the same man was proclaimed victor twice over.

(1) Al. B.C. 392. The historian omits the overtures for peace, B.C.
391 (or 391-390) referred to in Andoc. "De Pace." See Jebb, "Att.
Or." i. 83, 108; Grote, "H. G." ix. 474; Curtius, "H. G." Eng. tr.
iv. 261.

(2) Grote and Curtius believe these to be the Isthmian games of 390
B.C., not of 392 B.C., as Sauppe and others suppose. See Peter,
"Chron. Table," p. 89, note 183; Jowett, "Thuc." ii. 468, note on
VIII. 9, 1.

(3) Lit. "road to Cenchreae."

On the fourth day Agesilaus led his troops against Peiraeum, but finding
it strongly defended, he made a sudden retrograde march after the
morning meal in the direction of the capital, as though he calculated on
the betrayal of the city. The Corinthians, in apprehension of some such
possible catastrophe, sent to summon Iphicrates with the larger
portion of his l