§16.13.1ὅτι κατὰ τὴν Πελοπόννησον τίνα μὲν ἐξ ἀρχῆς προαίρεσιν ἐνεστήσατο Νάβις ὁ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων τύραννος, καὶ πῶς ἐκβαλὼν τοὺς πολίτας ἠλευθέρωσε τοὺς δούλους καὶ συνῴκισε ταῖς τῶν δεσποτῶν γυναιξὶ καὶ θυγατράσιν, §16.13.2ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τίνα τρόπον ἀναδείξας τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν οἷον ἄσυλον ἱερὸν τοῖς ἢ διʼ ἀσέβειαν ἢ πονηρίαν φεύγουσι τὰς ἑαυτῶν πατρίδας ἥθροισε πλῆθος ἀνθρώπων ἀνοσίων εἰς τὴν Σπάρτην, ἐν τοῖς πρὸ τούτων δεδηλώκαμεν.
As to how, in the Peloponnese, Nabis, the tyrant of the Lacedaemonians, adopted what kind of policy from the beginning, and how, after expelling the citizens, he set the slaves free and married them to the wives and daughters of their masters, and likewise in what manner, by making his own power like a sacred asylum for those fleeing their own countries either because of impiety or wickedness, he gathered a crowd of impious men into Sparta, we have shown in the preceding books.
§16.13.3πῶς δὲ καὶ τίνα τρόπον κατὰ τοὺς προειρημένους καιροὺς σύμμαχος ὑπάρχων Αἰτωλοῖς, Ἠλείοις, Μεσσηνίοις, καὶ πᾶσι τούτοις ὀφείλων καὶ κατὰ τοὺς ὅρκους καὶ κατὰ τὰς συνθήκας βοηθεῖν, εἴ τις ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἴοι, παρʼ οὐδὲν ποιησάμενος τὰς προειρημένας πίστεις ἐπεβάλετο παρασπονδῆσαι τὴν τῶν Μεσσηνίων πόλιν, νῦν ἐροῦμεν. —
But how and in what manner, at the aforementioned times, although he was an ally of the Aetolians, Eleans, and Messenians, and was bound both by oaths and treaties to help all of them if anyone should attack them, he set at nought the aforementioned pledges and attempted to violate the treaty with the city of the Messenians, we shall now relate.