History of the Peloponnesian War

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.

Whereupon succour was sent, both of the Lacedaemonians themselves and of the Helots, in full force, promptly and on such a scale as never before.