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45.
Upon the envoys speaking in the senate upon these points, and stating that
they had come with full powers to settle all others at issue between them,
Alcibiades became afraid that if they were to repeat these statements to the
popular assembly, they might gain the multitude, and the Argive alliance
might be rejected,
[2]
and accordingly had recourse to the following stratagem.
He persuaded the Lacedaemonians by a solemn assurance that if they would
say nothing of their full powers in the assembly, he would give back Pylos
to them （himself, the present opponent of its restitution, engaging
to obtain this from the Athenians）, and would settle the other
points at issue.
[3]
His plan was to detach them from Nicias and to disgrace them before the
people, as being without sincerity in their intentions, or even common
consistency in their language, and so to get the Argives, Eleans, and
Mantineans taken into alliance.
[4]
This plan proved successful.
When the envoys appeared before the people, and upon the question being put
to them, did not say as they had said in the senate, that they had come with
full powers, the Athenians lost all patience, and carried away by
Alcibiades, who thundered more loudly than ever against the Lacedaemonians,
were ready instantly to introduce the Argives and their companions and to
take them into alliance.
An earthquake, however, occurring, before anything definite had been done,
this assembly was adjourned.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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