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It is only
from such
documents
and from occasional
references of
historians
that we
obtain a
knowledge
of the Peloponnesian
constitution.
Greece, 79 f.;
Ancient
World, 120 f.
120 Sparta and the Peloponnesian League
Treaty between
Lace-
to make peace and alliance for fifty years on the following
conditions:
daemon and
Argos, 418
I.
B.C.
They shall submit to arbitration on fair and equal
Document terms, according to their ancestral customs.
quoted by
II. The other cities of Peloponnesus shall participate
Thucydides
V. 79. in the peace and alliance, and shall be independent and
their own masters, retaining their own territory and submitting
to arbitration on fair and equal terms, according
to their ancestral customs.
III. All the allies of the Lacedaemonians outside Peloponnesus
shall share in the same terms as the Lacedaemonians,
and the allies of the Argives shall be in the same
position as the Argives, and shall retain their present
territory.
IV. If it shall be necessary to make any expedition in
common against any place, the Lacedaemonians and the
Argives shall consult together and fix the share in the war
which may be equitably borne by the allies.
V. If any of the states either within or without Peloponnesus,
have a dispute about a frontier, or any other matter,
the difference shall be duly settled.
But should a quarrel
break out between two of the allied cities, they shall appeal
to some state which both the cities deem to be impartial.
VI. Justice shall be administered to the individual
citizens according to their ancestral customs.
We may add the following clauses from an earlier
shed further light on the Peloponnesian constitution:
treaty, which
Document
quoted by
Thucydides
V. 77.
VII. The cities of Peloponnesus, both small and great,
shall be independent according to their ancestral laws.
VIII. If anyone from without Peloponnesus comes
against Peloponnesus with evil intent, the Peloponnesians