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Carian, for the old Hellenic fashion of dress for women wasuniversally the same as that which we now call Dorian. Moreover it issaid that with reference to these events the Argives and Eginetansmade it a custom among themselves in both countries[72] to have thebrooches made half as large again as the size which was thenestablished in use, and that their women should offer broochesespecially in the temple of these goddesses,[73] and also that theyshould carry neither pottery of Athens nor anything else of Athenianmake to the temple, but that it should be the custom for the future todrink there from pitchers made in the lands themselves.89. The women of the Argives and Eginetans from this time onwardsbecause of the quarrel with the Athenians continued to wear broocheslarger than before, and still do so even to my time; and the origin ofthe enmity of the Athenians towards the Eginetans came in the mannerwhich has been said. So at this time, when the Thebans invaded them,the Eginetans readily came to the assistance of the Bœotians, callingto mind what occurred about the images. The Eginetans then were layingwaste, as I have said, the coast regions of Attica; and when theAthenians were resolved to make an expedition against the Eginetans,an oracle came to them from Delphi bidding them stay for thirty yearsreckoned from the time of the wrong done by the Eginetans, and in theone-and-thirtieth year to appoint a sacred enclosure for Aiacos andthen to begin the war against the Eginetans, and they would succeed asthey desired; but if they should make an expedition against them atonce, they would suffer in the meantime very much evil and alsoinflict very much, but at last they would subdue them. When theAthenians heard the report of this, they appointed a sacred enclosurefor Aiacos, namely that which is now established close to the marketplace,but they could not endure to hear that they must stay forthirty years, when they had suffered injuries from the Eginetans. 90.While however they were preparing to take vengeance, a matter arosefrom the Lacedemonians which provided a hindrance to them: for theLacedemonians, having learnt that which had been contrived by theAlcmaionidai with respect to the Pythian prophetess, and that whichhad been contrived by the Pythian prophetess against themselves andthe sons of Peisistratos, were doubly grieved, not only because theyhad driven out into exile men who were their guest-friends, but alsobecause after they had done this no gratitude was shown to them by theAthenians. Moreover in addition to this, they were urged on by theoracles which said that many injuries would be suffered by them fromthe Athenians; of which oracles they had not been aware of before, butthey had come to know them, since Cleomenes had brought them toSparta. In fact Cleomenes had obtained from the Acropolis of theAthenians those oracles which the sons of Peisistratos possessedbefore and had left in the temple when they were driven out; and