Finding the frontier sacrifices favourable, Agesilaus began
his march at once upon Arcadia. He began by occupying the
border city of Eutaea, where he found the old men, women,
and children dwelling in their houses, while the rest of the
population of a military age were off to join the Arcadian
league. In spite of this he did not stir a finger unjustly
against the city, but suffered the inhabitants to continue in
their homes undisturbed. The troops took all they needed,
and paid for it in return ; if any pillage had occurred on his
first entrance into the town, the property was hunted up and
restored by the Spartan king. Whilst awaiting the arrival of
Polytropus's mercenaries, he amused himself by repairing such
portions of their walls as necessity demanded.
Meanwhile the Mantineans had taken the field against
Orchomenus ; but from the walls of that city the invaders had
some difficulty in retiring, and lost some of their men. On
their retreat they found themselves in Elymia;^ here the

1 Asea is placed by Leake ( Travels in Morea, i. 84 ; iii. 34) near Frangdvrysl,
a little south of Pallantium.
Heraea, the most important town of Arcadia in the Cynuria, near Elis,
on the high road to Olympia, and commanding other main roads. See Leake,
Peloponnesiaca, p. i foil. ; Morea, ii. 91.
Lepreum, chief town of the Triphylia (Herod, iv. 148, ix. 28 ; Thuc. v. 31 ;
above, IIL ii. 25, p. 17 ; Paus. V. v. 3 ; Polyb. iv. 77 foU. ; Strab. viii. 345),
near modern Strovitzi ; Leake, Morea, i. 56 ; Dodwell, Tour, ii. 347.
Eutaea is placed by Leake between Asea and Pallantium at Barbitza
I^Morea, iii. 31); but see Grote, H. G. x. 288.
