Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
The tribe of Acamantis had the prytany, Phoenippus was secretary,
Niciades chairman. Laches moved, in the name of the good luck of the
Athenians, that they should conclude the armistice upon the terms
agreed upon by the Lacedaemonians and the allies. It was agreed
accordingly in the popular assembly that the armistice should be for
one year, beginning that very day, the fourteenth of the month of
Elaphebolion; during which time ambassadors and heralds should go and
come between the two countries to discuss the bases of a pacification.
That the generals and prytanes should call an assembly of the people,
in which the Athenians should first consult on the peace, and on the
mode in which the embassy for putting an end to the war should be
admitted. That the embassy now present should at once take the
engagement before the people to keep well and truly this truce for one
year.
On these terms the Lacedaemonians concluded with the Athenians and
their allies on the twelfth day of the Spartan month Gerastius; the
allies also taking the oaths. Those who concluded and poured the
libation were Taurus, son of Echetimides, Athenaeus, son of
Pericleidas, and Philocharidas, son of Eryxidaidas, Lacedaemonians;
Aeneas, son of Ocytus, and Euphamidas, son of Aristonymus, Corinthians;
Damotimus, son of Naucrates, and Onasimus, son of Megacles, Sicyonians;
Nicasus, son of Cecalus, and Menecrates, son of Amphidorus, Megarians;
and Amphias, son of Eupaidas, an Epidaurian; and the Athenian generals
Nicostratus, son of Diitrephes, Nicias, son of Niceratus, and Autocles,
son of Tolmaeus. Such was the armistice, and during the whole of it
conferences went on on the subject of a pacification.
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