History of the Peloponnesian War

He, however, went in haste to Lacedaemon with ambassadors from that place, to defend himself, if Ischagoras and his party should bring any charge against him for not obeying; and at the same time from a wish to know whether the arrangement might still be altered: but when he found the treaty secured, being sent back again himself by the Lacedaemonians, and ordered to deliver up the place, if possible, but if not, to bring out all the Peloponnesians that were in it, he set out with all speed.

Now the allies happened [*]( Arnold translates αὐτοί, of their own accord; but Poppo remarks with truth, that this is in opposition to the statement that they had been summoned by the Lacedaemonians, ch. 17. 2, and 27. 1. He supposes, therefore, that it means 'the allies, as well as Clearidas.") themselves to be at Lacedaemon, and those of them who had not accepted the treaty were commanded by the Lacedaemonians to adopt it. They, however, on the same grounds as they had at first rejected it, refused to accept it, unless they made a more equitable one than that.