Book 5
31.5
So the Eleans, considering the Lacedaemonians to be receiving a city which had revolted from them, and alleging the agreement in which it had been declared, that whatever each party had when they entered on the Attic war, that they should also have when they retired from it; since they considered that they had not their due, they went over to the Argives; and thus they too, καθάπερ προείρητο I do not think that this expression can signify, according to Bloomfield's translation of it, which Poppo approves, in the manner aforesaid; i. e. by communicating with the twelve Argive commissioners, ch. 28. Surely, if that had been the writer's meaning, he would have used the perfect tense, not the pluperfect. Haack's interpretation therefore must be the correct one; as had been previously ordered by their countrymen. And in sec. 5, where the same words are repeated with reference to the Eleans, they may either refer to the decree passed by the state at large for its own course of policy; or the whole people may be said to have joined the Argive league, though it was done through the agency of its ambassadors, in accordance with the commands they had received for the purpose. as they had been previously instructed, concluded the alliance.
