§12.78.1ἐπʼ ἄρχοντος δʼ Ἀθήνησιν Ἀρχίου Ῥωμαῖοι κατέστησαν ὑπάτους Λεύκιον Παπίριον Μουγιλανὸν καὶ Γάιον Σερουίλιον Στροῦκτον.
When Archias was archon in Athens, the Romans established Lucius Papirius Mugillanus and Gaius Servilius Structus as consuls.
ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων Ἀργεῖοι μὲν ἐγκαλέσαντες τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τὰ θύματα οὐκ ἀπέδοσαν τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τῷ Πυθαεῖ, πόλεμον αὐτοῖς κατήγγειλαν· καθʼ ὃν δὴ χρόνον Ἀλκιβιάδης ὁ στρατηγὸς τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐνέβαλεν εἰς τὴν Ἀργείαν ἔχων δύναμιν.
Under these magistrates, the Argives, accusing the Lacedaemonians of not having rendered the sacrifices due to Apollo Pythaeus, declared war against them; at which very time Alcibiades, the general of the Athenians, entered the Argive territory with a force.
§12.78.2τούτους δὲ οἱ Ἀργεῖοι παραλαβόντες ἐστράτευσαν ἐπὶ Τροιζῆνα, πόλιν σύμμαχον Λακεδαιμονίων, καὶ τὴν μὲν χώραν λεηλατήσαντες, τὰς δὲ ἐπαύλεις ἐμπρήσαντες, ἀπηλλάγησαν εἰς τὴν οἰκείαν.
The Argives, taking these troops with them, campaigned against Troezen, a city allied with the Lacedaemonians, and having plundered the territory and burned the farmsteads, they returned to their own land.
οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι παροξυνθέντες ἐπὶ τοῖς εἰς τοὺς Τροιζηνίους παρανομήμασιν ἔγνωσαν διαπολεμεῖν πρὸς Ἀργείους· διὸ καὶ δύναμιν ἀθροίσαντες ἐπέστησαν ἡγεμόνα Ἆγιν τὸν βασιλέα.
The Lacedaemonians, provoked by the lawless acts against the Troezenians, resolved to wage war to the end against the Argives; therefore, having gathered a force, they appointed King Agis as commander.
§12.78.3οὗτος δὲ μετὰ τῆς δυνάμεως ἐστράτευσεν ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἀργείους, καὶ τὴν μὲν χώραν ἐδῄωσε, πλησίον δὲ τῆς πόλεως ἀγαγὼν τὴν δύναμιν προεκαλεῖτο τοὺς πολεμίους εἰς μάχην.
He campaigned with his force against the Argives, ravaged their territory, and leading his army near the city, challenged the enemy to battle.
§12.78.4οἱ δʼ Ἀργεῖοι προσλαβόμενοι στρατιώτας παρὰ μὲν Ἠλείων τρισχιλίους, παρὰ δὲ Μαντινέων οὐ πολὺ λειπομένους τούτων, προῆγον ἐκ τῆς πόλεως τὸ στρατόπεδον.
The Argives, taking in addition three thousand soldiers from the Eleans, and from the Mantineans a number not much inferior to this, led their army out of the city.
μελλούσης δὲ παρατάξεως γίνεσθαι, οἱ στρατηγοὶ παρʼ ἀμφοτέροις διαπρεσβευσάμενοι τετραμηνιαίους ἀνοχὰς συνέθεντο.
When a pitched battle was about to take place, the generals on both sides sent envoys to one another and concluded a four-month truce.
§12.78.5ἐπανελθόντων δὲ τῶν στρατοπέδων ἀπράκτων εἰς τὴν οἰκείαν, διʼ ὀργῆς εἶχον αἱ πόλεις ἀμφότεραι τοὺς συνθεμένους τὰς σπονδὰς στρατηγούς.
When the armies returned to their own countries without having accomplished anything, both cities held in anger the generals who had concluded the treaty.
διόπερ οἱ μὲν Ἀργεῖοι τοῖς λίθοις βάλλοντες τοὺς ἡγεμόνας ἀποκτείνειν ἐπεχείρησαν, καὶ μόγις μεταξὺ πολλῆς δεήσεως τὸ ζῆν συνεχώρησαν, τὴν δʼ οὐσίαν αὐτῶν δημεύσαντες κατέσκαψαν τὰς οἰκίας.
Therefore, the Argives attempted to kill their commanders by pelting them with stones, and only with difficulty, amid much entreaty, did they spare their lives, though they confiscated their property and razed their houses.
§12.78.6οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι τὸν Ἆγιν ἐπεβάλοντο μὲν κολάζειν, ἐπαγγειλαμένου δʼ αὐτοῦ διὰ τῶν καλῶν ἔργων διορθώσασθαι τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, μόγις συνεχώρησαν, εἰς δὲ τὸν λοιπὸν χρόνον ἑλόμενοι δέκα ἄνδρας τοὺς συνετωτάτους, παρακατέστησαν συμβούλους καὶ προσέταξαν μηδὲν ἄνευ τῆς τούτων γνώμης πράττειν.
The Lacedaemonians set about to punish Agis, but when he promised to make amends for his error through honorable deeds, they only with difficulty forgave him; for the future, however, they chose ten of their wisest men, appointed them as advisors at his side, and ordered him to do nothing without their counsel.