History of the Peloponnesian War

Subsequent to the withdrawal of the Argives from the confederacy, the Mantineans, after first holding out, and then finding themselves unable to do so without the Argives, came to terms on their part also with the Lacedaemonians, and relinquished their sovereignty over [*]( i.e. their subject allies, mentioned ch, 33 58. 1, and elsewhere.) the cities.