they went to the Boeotians and tried to persuade
them to alliance and a common action generally with Argos and
themselves, and also begged them to go with them to Athens and obtain
for them a ten days' truce similar to that made between the Athenians
and Boeotians not long after the fifty years' treaty, and, in the event
of the Athenians refusing, to throw up the armistice, and not make
any truce in future without Corinth. These were the requests of the
Corinthians. The Boeotians stopped them on the subject of the Argive
alliance, but went with them to Athens, where however they failed
to obtain the ten days' truce; the Athenian answer being that
the Corinthians had truce already, as being allies of Lacedaemon.
Nevertheless the Boeotians did not throw up their ten days' truce, in
spite of the prayers and reproaches of the Corinthians for their breach
of faith; and these last had to content themselves with a de facto
armistice with Athens.

The same summer the Lacedaemonians marched into Arcadia with their whole
levy under Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, king of Lacedaemon, against
the Parrhasians, who were subjects of Mantinea, and a faction of whom
had invited their aid. They also meant to demolish, if possible, the
fort of Cypsela which the Mantineans had built and garrisoned in the
Parrhasian territory, to annoy the district of Sciritis in Laconia. The
Lacedaemonians accordingly laid waste the Parrhasian country, and the
Mantineans, placing their town in the hands of an Argive garrison,
addressed themselves to the defence of their confederacy, but being
unable to save Cypsela or the Parrhasian towns went back to Mantinea.
Meanwhile the Lacedaemonians made the Parrhasians independent, razed the
fortress, and returned home.

The same summer the soldiers from Thrace who had gone out with
Brasidas came back, having been brought from thence after the treaty by
Clearidas; and the Lacedaemonians decreed that the Helots who had fought
with Brasidas should be free and allowed to live where they liked, and
not long afterwards settled them with the Neodamodes at Lepreum, which
is situated on the Laconian and Elean border; Lacedaemon being at this
time at enmity with Elis. Those however of the Spartans who had been
taken prisoners on the island and had surrendered their arms might, it
was feared, suppose that they were to be subjected to some degradation
in consequence of their misfortune, and so make some attempt at
revolution