Histories

When the Lacedaemonians heard the oracle reported, they left the other Arcadians alone and marched on Tegea [22.4,37.5] (Perseus) Tegea carrying chains, relying on the deceptive oracle. They were confident they would enslave the Tegeans, but they were defeated in battle.

Those taken alive were bound in the very chains they had brought with them, and they measured the Tegean plain with a rope[*](That is, mapping the land out for cultivation.) by working the fields. The chains in which they were bound were still preserved in my day, hanging up at the temple of Athena Alea.