History of the Peloponnesian War

As the battle was about to take place, Pleistoanax, the other king, set out with the older and younger men[*](cf. 5.64.3.) to bring succour, and got as far as Tegea; but learning there of the victory he returned.

The allies, too, from Corinth and from outside the Isthmus[*](cf. 5.64.4.) were turned back by messengers sent by the Lacedaemonians, who then likewise withdrew and, dismissing their allies, celebrated the festival of the Carneia; for it happened[*](Aug. 418 B.C.) to fall

at that time. And the charge brought against them at that time by the Hellenes, both of cowardice because of the calamity on the island of Sphacteria, and of general bad judgment and dilatoriness, they had wiped out by