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When all their preparations were made for the war, the readiness of their allies exceeding expectation （for now the hatred which the Argives and Arcadians felt for the Lacedaemonians had blazed up openly）, they revolted in the thirty-ninth year after the capture of Ithome, and in the fourth year of the twenty-third Olympiad,1 when Icarus of Hyreresia won the short footrace. At Athens the archonship was now of annual tenure, and Tlesias held office.

1 B.C. 685

Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.

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