History of the Peloponnesian War

So they refrained from the fine and the razing of his house, but for the present enacted a law which had no precedent among them; for they chose ten of the Spartiates as counsellors[*](Compare similar proceedings in 2.85.1; 3.69.1; 8.39.2.) for him without whose consent it was not lawful for him to lead an army out of the city.

Meanwhile word came from their friends[*](As opposed to the faction mentioned at the end of ch. lxii.) in Tegea that, unless they should come quickly, Tegea would go over to the Argives and their allies, and already had all but done so.