Kitap 4
118.7
"Deserters shall not be received during this time, whether freemen or slaves, either by you or by us.
118.8
"You shall give satisfaction to us and we to you according to our ancestral customs, settling disputed points by arbitration without war.
118.9
“To the Lacedaemonians and their allies these things seem good; but if anything seems to you fairer or juster than these things, come to Lacedaemon and set forth your view; for neither the Lacedaemonians nor their allies will reject any just proposal you may make.
118.10
And let those who come come with full powers, as you also desired of us. And the truce shall be for a year.”The prescript of the Athenian decree which ratified the truce is quoted verbatim (italics above).
118.11
Decreed by the people. The tribe Acamantis held the prytany, Phaenippus was clerk, Niciades was president.
118.12
Laches, invoking good fortune for the people of Athens, moved to conclude the armistice according to the terms to which the Lacedaemonians and their allies had consented; and it was agreed in the popular assembly that the armistice should be for a year, and should begin on that day, the fourteenth of the month Elaphebolion.
118.13
During this time envoys and heralds were to go from one state to the other and discuss proposals looking to the termination of the war.
118.14
And the generals and prytanes were to call an assembly in which the Athenians should deliberate first of all about peace, on what terms the Lacedaemonian embassy for ending the war should be admitted. And the embassies now present should pledge themselves at once, in the presence of the people, to abide by the truce for the year.
119.1
These agreements the Lacedaemonians and their allies made with the Athenians and their allies and ratified them by oath at Lacedaemon on the twelfth day of the Spartan month Gerastius.Grote is probably right in assuming that the twelfth of Gerastius corresponded to the fourteenth of Elaphebolion.
