vertures; and at last, after many claims had been urged on either side at the
conferences, a peace was agreed on upon the following basis.
Each party was to restore its conquests, but Athens was to keep Nisaea; her demand for Plataea being met by the Thebans asserting that they had
acquired the place not by force or treachery, but by the voluntary adhesion
upon agreement of its citizens; and the same, according to the Athenian account, being the history of her
acquisition of Nisaea.
This arranged, the Lacedaemonians summoned their allies, and all voting for
peace except the Boeotians, Corinthians, Eleans, and Megarians, who did not
approve of these proceedings, they concluded the treaty and made peace, each
of the contracting parties swearing to the following
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