History of the Peloponnesian War

Thus, then, the Argives were admitting into alliance such of the Greeks as wished it.

The Mantineans and their allies were the first to join them, through fear of the Lacedaemonians. For a certain part of Arcadia had been reduced to subjection by the Mantineans, while the war with the Athenians was still going on; and they thought that the Lacedaemonians would not allow their sovereignty over it, since they had now [*]( The force of the καί before σχολήν appears to be, leisure, as well as inclination. ) leisure to interfere; so that they gladly turned to the Argives, considering them to be a powerful state, and one which was always at variance with the Lacedaemonians, and under a democratical government like themselves.