Having united the most powerful states of Peloponnese, without great danger or expense to you, I compelled the Lacedaemonians to stake their all upon the issue of a single day at mantinea; and although victorious in the battle, they have never since fully recovered confidence.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
After much discussion, Alcibiades happening to be in the town, the Lacedaemonian party, who now ventured to act openly, persuaded the Argives to accept the proposal for accommodation; which ran as follows: The assembly of the Lacedaemonians agrees to treat with the Argives upon the terms following: 1. The Argives shall restore to the Orchomenians their children, and to the Maenalians their men, and shall restore the men they have in mantinea to the Lacedaemonians.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
Meanwhile they sent to Corinth, to the Boeotians, the Phocians, and Locrians, with orders to come up as quickly as possible to mantinea.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
