at that time independent, and had for some time the management of the Nemean games)(749), at Ceryneia in Achaia, and even in Macedonia.(750) Of the Tirynthians also some fled to Epidaurus, and some to Halieis in the territory of the Dryopians, in which place the expelled Hermioneans also found an asylum.(751) For Hermione, which Herodotus during the time of the Persian war considers as a Dryopian city,(752) was subsequently taken by the Argives.(753) The other cities which have been mentioned, had however, as we know of Orneæ and also Hysiæ, previously belonged to Periœci, being subjects of Argos, and were only then incorporated for the purpose of enlarging the metropolis.(754) The Argives, by these arbitrary proceedings, secured themselves as well against external foes as against their former enemies the bond-slaves, and also acquired a large number of laborious and industrious inhabitants, who, by the continuance of peace, soon re-established the prosperity and wealth of Argos.(755) The oracle has well marked out the principles which were then expedient for the welfare of that state, when it recommended it, as “_the enemy of its neighbours, and friend of the gods, to draw in its arms, and __ remain in watchful quiet, guarding its head; for that the head would save the body_.”(756) At the same time, however, by these proceedings, a complete change in the constitution was brought about, and Argos, as we shall see hereafter, gradually lost the peculiar features of the Doric character. The other actions of Cleomenes of which we have any knowledge refer to the political changes at Athens, and could only be connectedly related in a history of the Athenian constitution, or in reference to the events in Ægina, which we have narrated elsewhere.