History of the Peloponnesian War

The same summer a war broke out between the Epidaurians and Argives; nominally, about the offering to Apollo Pythaeus, which the Epidaurians were bound to make, but did not, for [*]( I have adopted Poppo's reading, παραποταμίων, as Arnold himself confesses that the common one, ποταμίων, is perfectly inexplicable. Of Bloomfield's conjecture, βοτανόμων, pastures, Poppo says, refutatione non indiget ) certain lands by the river side; (the Argives had the chief management of the temple;) but even independently of this charge, Alcibiades and the Argives thought it desirable to get possession of Epidaurus, if they could; both to insure the neutrality of Corinth, and thinking that the Athenians would find it a shorter passage for their succours through Aegina, than by sailing round Scyllaeum. The Argives therefore prepared to invade Epidaurus by themselves, in order to exact the offering.

The Lacedaemonians, too, at the same time marched out with all their forces to Leuctra, on their own borders, opposite Mount Lyaeum, under the command of Agis son of Archidamus, their king; but no one knew what was their destination, not even the [*]( Duker and Poppo suppose the cities of Laconia to be here intended.) cities from which contingents were sent.