Book 1
66.2
She replied in hexameter: You ask me for Arcadia [22.25,37.583] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Arcadia ? You ask too much; I grant it not. There are many men in Arcadia [22.25,37.583] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Arcadia , eaters of acorns, Who will hinder you. But I grudge you not. I will give you Tegea [22.4,37.5] (Perseus) Tegea to beat with your feet in dancing, And its fair plain to measure with a rope.
66.3
When the Lacedaemonians heard the oracle reported, they left the other Arcadians alone and marched on Tegea [22.4,37.5] (Perseus) Tegea carrying chains, relying on the deceptive oracle. They were confident they would enslave the Tegeans, but they were defeated in battle.
66.4
Those taken alive were bound in the very chains they had brought with them, and they measured the Tegean plain with a ropeThat is, mapping the land out for cultivation. by working the fields. The chains in which they were bound were still preserved in my day, hanging up at the temple of Athena Alea.
67.1
In the previous war the Lacedaemonians continually fought unsuccessfully against the Tegeans, but in the time of Croesus and the kingship of Anaxandrides and Ariston in Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon the Spartans had gained the upper hand. This is how:
