Upon receiving this message and discovering that the Athenians, far from being privy to the Boeotian alliance, were involved in a serious quarrel with the Lacedaemonians, the Argives paid no further attention to the embassy which they had just sent to Lacedaemon on the subject of the treaty, and began to incline rather towards the Athenians, reflecting that, in the event of war, they would thus have on their side a city that was not only an ancient ally of Argos, but a sister democracy and very powerful at sea.
Laster heldu ziren Filokaridas, Leon eta Endio lazedemondarren enbaxadoreak ere, itxura batean atenastarrekin harreman onak mantentzen zituztenak, beldur zirelako haserrearen ondorioz argostarrekin hitzarmena egingo zutela;