History of the Peloponnesian War

Besides, the envoys from Perdiccas had made at Lacedaemon a declaration to this effect, that he would bring many places around him into alliance with them; so that Brasidas, on the strength of this, thought himself entitled to arrange the affairs of Arrhibaeus in [*]( Or, κοινῇ μᾶλλον may signify on more public grounds, i. e. on the strength of what Perdiccas had held out at Sparta as a national advantage that would result from their sending troops to co-operate with him. Poppo and Bloomfield think it signifies more impartially. ) common with Perdiccas, rather than leave them to him alone.