<head><a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> Included In the League</head>Such were the arguments employed on either side.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note41"><a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> admitted to the league.</note>The Achaeans, after listening to both, decided to admit the city, and accordingly the agreement was engraved on a tablet, and <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> became a member of the Achaean league: the existing citizens having agreed to admit such of the old exiles as were not considered to have acted in a hostile spirit against the Achaeans. After confirming this arrangement the Achaeans sent Bippus of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Argos&groupId=361&placeId=689">Argos</a> and others as ambassadors to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, to explain to the Senate what had been done in the matter. The Lacedaemonians also sent Chaeron and others; while the exiles too sent a mission led by Cletis Diactorius<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note42">This looks like a local name, but no place is known corresponding to it. A Diactorides of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> is mentioned in<bibl n="Hdt. 6.127" default="NO" valid="yes">Herodotus, 6, 127</bibl>; and perhaps, as Hultsch suggests, we ought to read "Cletis and Diactorius."</note>to oppose the Achaean ambassadors in the Senate.<pb />
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