History of the Peloponnesian War

but returned home, and kept the Gymnopaediae. Afterwards, when ambassadors had come both from the Argives in the city [*](ἀγγέλων.] Bekker, Poppo, and Arnold all think this word corrupt; while Göller understands by it a party in Argos who were in constant communication with Sparta: but surely that is a very forced interpretation.) and from those driven out of it, and when the allies also were present, and much had been said on both sides, they decided that the party in the city were in the wrong, and resolved to march against Argos; but much delay and procrastination ensued.

In the mean time the commons at Argos were afraid of the Lacedaemonians, and as they courted the alliance of Athens again, and thought it would be of the greatest service to them, they built long walls to the sea; that if they should be excluded from the use of the land, the importation of things by sea, through the help of the Athenians, might be of benefit to them.