B.C. 370-369. — The Arcadians, now that Agesilaus had
retired, realising that he had disbanded his troops, while they
themselves were fully mustered, marched upon Heraea, the
citizens of which town had not only refused to join the
Arcadian league, but had joined the Lacedaemonians in
their invasion of Arcadia. For this reason they entered the
country, burning the homesteads and cutting down the fruit-
trees.
Meanwhile news came of the arrival of the Theban rein-
forcements at Mantinea, on the strength of which they left
Heraea and hastened to fraternise ^ with their Theban friends,
When they were met together, the Thebans, on their siJie, were
well content with the posture of affairs : they had duly brought
their succour, and no enemy was any longer to be discovered

' ;f2437 ; los. See Busolt, op. cit. p. 199.
"^ Lit. "perioeci"; and below, §§ zS' S^-
' Or, "effect a junction with."



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in the country; so they made preparations to return home.
