ocky recesses of Mount Scollis (modern Santameri), on the
frontier of Achaea, near the modern village of Santameri. See
Polyb. iv. 75. See Busolt, op. cit. p. 179.

The Lacedaemonians presently made a second attempt on Cromnus by a night
attack, got possession of the part of the palisading facing the Argives,
and at once began summoning their besieged fellow-citizens to come out.
Out accordingly came all who happened to be within easy distance, and
who took time by the forelock. The rest were not quick enough; a strong
Arcadian reinforcement cut them off, and they remained shut up inside,
and were eventually taken prisoners and distributed. One portion of
them fell to the lot of the Argives, one to the Thebans, (23) one to the
Arcadians, and one to the Messenians. The whole number taken, whether
true-born Spartans or Perioeci, amounted to more than one hundred.

(23) "The Thebans must have been soldiers in garrison at Tegea,
Megalopolis, or Messene."--Grote, "H. G." x. 433.

B.C. 364. And now that the Arcadians had leisure on the side of Cromnus,
they were again able to occupy themselves with the Eleians, and to
keep Olympia still more strongly garrisoned. In anticipation of the
approaching Olympic year, (24) they began preparations to celebrate the
Olympian games in conjunction with the men of Pisa, who claim to be
the original presidents of the Temple. (25) Now, when the month of the
Olympic Festival--and not the month only, but the very days, during
which the solemn assembly is wont to meet, were come, the Eleians, in
pursuance of preparations and invitations to the Achaeans, of which they
made no secret, at length proceeded to march along the road to Olympia.
The Arcadians had never imagined that they would really attack them; and
they were themselves just now engaged with the men of Pisa in carrying
out the details of the solemn assembly. They had already completed the
chariot-race, and the foot-race of the pentathlon. (26) The competitors
entitled to enter for the wrestling match had left the racecourse, and
were getting through their bouts in the space between the racecourse and
the great altar.

(24) I.e. "Ol. 104. 1" (July B.C. 364).

(25) For this claim on the part of the Pisatans (as the old
inhabitants), see above, III. ii. 31; Paus. VI. xxii. 2; Diod. xv.
78; Busolt, op. cit. p. 154.

(26) As to the pentathlon, see above, IV. vii. 5. Whether the
preceding {ippodromia} was,