History of the Peloponnesian War

"The Athenians and the Lacedaemonians and their respective allies have concluded a treaty and sworn to it state by state upon the following terms:

1. "With regard to the common sanctuaries,[*](With reference especially to Delphi and Olympia.) whoever wishes may offer sacrifices and consult the oracles and attend as a deputy according to the customs of the fathers, both by land and sea, without fear. 2. "The precinct and the temple of Apollo at Delphi and the people of Delphi shall be independent, having their own system of taxation and their own courts of justice, both as regards themselves and their own territory, according to the customs of the fathers. 3.

"The truce shall be in force for fifty years between the Athenians and their allies and the Lacedaemonians and their allies, without fraud or hurt, both by land and sea. 4.

"It shall not be lawful to bear arms with harmful intent, either for the Lacedaemonians and their allies against the Athenians and their allies, or for the Athenians and their allies against the Lacedaemonians and their allies, by any art or device. And if there be any dispute with one another, they shall have recourse to courts and oaths, according as they shall agree. 5. "The Lacedaemonians and their allies shall restore Amphipolis to the Athenians.

But in the case of cities delivered by the Lacedaemonians to the Athenians, their inhabitants shall be allowed to go away wherever they wish, having their own possessions; and these cities, so long as they pay the tribute that was fixed in the time of Aristeides, shall be independent. And it shall not be lawful for the Athenians and their allies, after the ratification of the treaty, to bear arms against the cities to their hurt, so long as they pay the tribute. These cities are Argilus,[*](cf. 4.103.4.) Stagirus,[*](cf. 4.88.2.) Acanthus,[*](cf. 4.88.1.) Stolus, Olynthus,[*](cf. 1.58.2.) Spartolus.[*](cf. 2.79.) These shall be allies neither of the Lacedaemonians nor of the Athenians; but if the Athenians can persuade these cities it shall be lawful for the Athenians to make them, with their own free will and consent, allies to themselves. 6.

"The Mecybernaeans and Sanaeans[*](cf. 4.109.3, 5.) and Singians shall dwell in their own towns on the same terms as the Olynthians and Acanthians. 7. "The Lacedaemonians and their allies shall restore Panactum[*](cf. 5.3.5.) to the Athenians.

The Athenians shall restore to the Lacedaemonians, Coryphasium,[*](cf. 4.3.2.) Cythera,[*](cf. 4.54.) Methana,[*](cf. 4.45.2.) Pteleum, and Atalante[*](cf. 2.32.); also they shall set at liberty the Lacedaemonian captives who are in the public prison at Athens or in public prison anywhere else that the Athenians hold sway, and the men of the Peloponnesus who are being besieged in Scione, and all besides who are allies of the Lacedaemonians in Scione,[*](cf. 4.131.) and those whom Brasidas sent into the place,[*](cf. 4.123.4.) as likewise any of the allies of the Lacedaemonians who are in the public prison in Athens, or in public prison anywhere else that the Athenians have sway. In like manner the Lacedaemonians and their allies shall restore whomsoever they have of the Athenians and their allies. 8.

"As to Scione, Torone,[*](cf. 5.3.2.) Sermyle, or any other city which the Athenians hold, the Athenians shall determine about these and the other cities as they may think best. 9. "The Athenians shall bind themselves by oaths with the Lacedaemonians and their allies, city by city;

and either party shall swear its customary oath in the form that is most binding,[*](The Athenians, in ratifying treaties, swore by Zeus, Demeter and Apollo. See Fränkel, Hermes, xiii. 460. Ullrich suggests for Sparta the Dioscuri.) seventeen men representing each city. The oath shall be as follows: 'I will abide by this agreement and this treaty, justly and without deceit.' For the Lacedaemonians and their allies there shall be an oath, in the same terms, with the Athenians. And both parties shall renew the oath year by year. 10.

"They shall erect pillars at Olympia, Delphi, the Isthmus, and on the Acropolis at Athens, and at Lacedaemon in the temple of Apollo of Amyclae.[*](Two or three miles from Sparta.)11.

"If either party forgets anything about any matter whatsoever, it shall be consistent with their oath for both, by means of fair discussion, to make a change at any point where it may seem good to both parties, the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians.