434 HISTORY OF GREECE. Apolls and the Delphians. The Lacedaemonians accept the article literally, of course. 3. The Athenian garrisons at Pylus, Kythera, Nisaea, and Minoa, and Methana in the neighborhood of Troezen, are tc remain as at present. No communication to take place between Kythera and any portion of the mainland belonging to the Lacedaemonian alliance. The soldiers occupying Pylus shall confine themselves wunin the space between Buphras and To- meus ; those in Nisaea and Minoa, within the road which leads from the chapel of tae hero Nisus to the temple of Poseidon, without any communication with the population beyond that limit. In like manner, the Athenians in the peninsula of Methana near Troezen, and the inhabitants of the latter city, shall observe the special convention concluded between them respecting bounda- ries. 1 4. The Lacedaemonians and their allies shall make use of the sea for trading purposes, on their own coasts, but shall not have liberty to sail in any ship of war, nor in any rowed merchant- vessel of tonnage equal to five hundred talents. [All war-ships were generally impelled by oar : they sometimes used sails, but never when wanted for fighting. Merchant-vessels seem gener- ally to have sailed, but were sometimes rowed : the limitation of size is added, to insure that the Lacedaemonians shall not, under color of merchantmen, get up a warlike navy.] 5. There shall be free communication by sea as well as by land between Peloponnesus and Athens for herald or embassy with suitable attendants, to treat for a definitive peace or for the adjustment of differences. 6. Neither side shall receive deserters from the other, whethei free or slave. [This article was alike important to both parties. Athens had to fear the revolt of her subject-allies, Sparta the desertion of Helots.] 7. Disputes shall be amicably settled, by both parties, acccrd- ing to their established laws and customs. Such was the substance of the treaty prepared at Sparta, seemingly in concert with Athenian envoys, and sent by the Spartans to Athens for approval, with the following addition :
- Thucyd. iv, 118
- see Poppo's note.
