Diodorus Siculus

“ And not long after, Ismenias, the general of the Bœotians leaving the Argives to guard the city, caused the Æneans and Acharnians to desert the Lacedæmonians, and having raised among them and other confederates many soldiers, he marched with an army of no less than six thousand men against the Phocians. ”

“ At that time Conon the Persian admiral arrived in the Piræus at Athens with fourscore sail, and promised the citizens to rebuild the walls of the city: for the walls and long thighs of the Piræus were demolished by the Lacedæmonians, according to the articles of the peace when the Athenians were brought very low, and their power broken by the Peloponnesian war. To this end Conon hired many workmen, and ordered several out of the fleet to be assisting to the carrying on the work, so that the greatest part of the wall was finished in a short time. ”

“ In the time of their governments, the Bœotians and Athenians, the Corinthians and the Argives, confederated: for they conceived, that if they (being the most considerable and largest cities of Greece) did but stick close one to another, they might easily overcome the lordly power of the Lacedæmonians, and the rather, because they were hated of their confederates for their tyrannical government. ”