Allies of Sparta
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spoken of as
2 expressionsPeloponnesian League“allies of Sparta”2 mentions
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
The allies of the Lacedaemonians were these:
The Peloponnesian League1 mention
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
but you will rather come to its support after it has been wronged:
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The confederacy of states led by Sparta, enumerated by Thucydides at the outset of the war and later seen invading and withdrawing from Attica as a body.
The allies of the Lacedaemonians were these:
all the Peloponnesians within the Isthmus, except the Argives and Achaeans (these were in friendship with both parties;
Of these, the states which furnished a navy were the Corinthians, Megareans, Sicyonians, Pellenians, Eleans, Ambraciots, and Leucadians.
Archidamus
The states tied to Sparta by alliance, some criticized for pressuring Sparta and others recalled as beneficiaries of Spartan protection.
And yet our allies have been only too zealous in advising you that you must give up Messene and make peace.
and, besides all that, they threaten that if we do not comply with these terms, they will make a separate peace.
Brasidas entered Amphipolis and, having rallied about him a few of those who were under siege, defeated the besiegers in battle in spite of their numbers;
Agesilaus
The allied communities and friends whose support Agesilaus mobilizes and whose loyalty he values.
At any rate they went with him voluntarily to aid Sparta, knowing as they did that they must meet an enemy not inferior to themselves.
In addition to the army that he had brought with him he had a regiment and a half of Lacedaemonians, and of the local allies only the Phocians and Orchomenians.
Agesilaus now realised that if he helped neither king, neither of them would pay the Greeks their wages, neither would provide a market, and the conqueror, whichever he proved to be, would be hostile, but if he co-operated with one of them, that one, being under an obligation to him, would in all probability adopt a friendly attitude.