Histories

I cannot say for certain why it was that when Alexander the Macedonian came to Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens [*](cp. Hdt. 8.135 ) the Lacedaemonians insisted that the Athenians should not join the side of the Persian, yet now took no account of that; it may be that with the Isthmus fortified, they thought they had no more need of the Athenians, whereas when Alexander came to Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica, their wall was not yet built and they were working at this in great fear of the Persians.

The nature of their response was as follows: on the day before the final hearing of the Athenian delegation, Chileus, a man of Tegea [22.4,37.5] (Perseus) Tegea, who had more authority with the Lacedaemonians than any other of their guests, learned from the ephors all that the Athenians had said.

Upon hearing this he, as the tale goes, said to the ephors, “Sirs, if the Athenians are our enemies and the barbarians allies, then although you push a strong wall across the Isthmus, a means of access into the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese lies wide open for the Persian. No, give heed to what they say before the Athenians take some new resolve which will bring calamity to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas.”