MARCH OF AGESILAUS. 211 pus, as well as to arrest the Arcadian movement, she resolved on a march into the country, in spite of her present dispirited condi- tion ; while Heraea and Lepreum, but no other places, sent con- tingents to her aid. From Elis and Argos, on the other hand, reinforcements came to Mantinea and Tegea. Proclaiming that the Mantineans had violated the recent peace by their entiy into Tegea, Agesilaus marched across the border against them. The first Arcadian town which he reached was Eutaea, 1 where he found that ah 1 the male adults had gone to the great Arcadian assembly. Though the feebler population, remaining behind, were completely hi his power, he took scrupulous care to respect both person and property, and even lent aid to rebuild a decayed portion of the wall. At Eutaea he halted a day or two, thinking it prudent to wait for the junction of the mercenary force and the Boeotian exiles under Polytropus, now at Orchomenus. Against the latter place, how- ever, the Mantineans had marched under Lykomedes, while Poly- tropus, coming forth from the walls to meet them, had been de- feated with loss, and slain. 9 Hence Agesilaus was compelled to advance onward with his own unassisted forces, through the terri- tory of Tegea up to the neighborhood of Mantinea. His onward march left the way from Asea to Tegea free, upon which the Arca- dians assembled at Asea broke up, and marched by night to Te- gea ; from whence, on the next day, they proceeded to Mantinea, along the mountain range eastward of the Tegeatic plain ; so that the whole Arcadian force thus became united. Agesilaus on his - 1 cannot but think that Eutsea stands marked upon the maps of Kiepert at a point too far from the frontier of Laconia, and so situated in reference to Asea, that Agesilaus must have passed very near Asea in order to get to it ; which is difficult to suppose, seeing that the Arcadian convocation was assembled at Asea. Xenophon calls Eutasa TTO^LV oftopov with reference to Laconia (Hellen. vi, 5, 12); this will hardly suit with the position marked by Kiepert. The district called Mamalia must have reached farther southward than Kiepert indicates on his map. It included Oresteion, which was on the straight road from Sparta to Tegea (Thucyd. v, 64; Herodot. ix, 11). Kiepert has placed Oresteion in his map agreeably to what seems the mean- ing of Pausanias, viii, 44, 3. But it rather appeal's that the place mentioned by Pausanias must have been Oresthasion, and that Oresteion must have been a different plate, though Pausanias considers them the same. See the geo- graphical Appendix to K. 0. Miiller's Dorians, vol. ii, p. 442 Germ. edit.
- Xfin. Hellen. vi, 5, 13, 14 ; Diodor. xv, 62.
