Mantineans
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the Mantineans · Mantinea · city of the Mantineans · men of Mantinea
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1 expressionthe Mantineans“Mantinea”2 mentions
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
Subsequent to the withdrawal of the Argives from the confederacy, the Mantineans, after first holding out, and then finding themselves unable to do so without the Argives, came to terms on their part also with the Lacedaemonians, and relinquished their sovereignty over the cities.
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Peloponnesian contingent at Olpae distinguished for its discipline in battle and retreat, and specially spared under Demosthenes's secret truce.
and many of them were killed, while they hurried on without any order, excepting the Mantineans, who kept their ranks best of all the army during the retreat.
The Peloponnesians and Ambraciots were drawn up without distinction, excepting the Mantineans, who kept together more on the left, though not in the extremity of the flank, for the extreme left was held by Eurylochus and his men, opposed to the Messenians and Demosthenes.
but Demosthenes and his Acarnanian colleagues secretly granted one to the Mantineans, and Menedaeus and the other Peloponnesian commanders, to retreat with all speed;
Hellenica
People of Mantinea punished by Lacedaemon and divided into villages.
Firstly, therefore, they sent to the Mantineans and ordered them to tear down their wall, saying that they could not trust them in any other way not to take sides with their enemies.
Thus ended the affair of the Mantineans, whereby men were made wiser in this point at least — not to let a river run through city walls.
And although they hated them, nevertheless they kept their hands off them more easily than did the Mantineans belonging to the aristocratic party.
The Histories
Greek allies who arrive at Plataea after the battle is over, are devastated at missing it, wish to pursue Artabazus's fleeing Medes, and later banish their own leaders for the delay.
So when they returned to their own land, the Mantineans banished the leaders of their army from the country.
Upon learning that they had come too late for the battle, they were extremely upset and said that they ought to punish themselves for that.
When they heard that those Medes with Artabazus were fleeing, they would have pursued them as far as Thessaly.
On the Peace
The people of Mantinea, described as displaced by Spartan action.
Did they not rob the Eleans of part of their territory, did they not lay waste the land of the Corinthians, did they not disperse the Mantineans from their homes, did they not reduce the Phliasians by siege, and did they not invade the country of the Argives, never ceasing from their depredations upon the rest of the world and so bringing upon themselves the disaster at Leuctra?