The conjunction of all these things caused fear to the Argives, and with a view to this they resolved to make use of the enemy’s herald; and having so resolved they proceeded to do as follows:⁠—whenever the Spartan herald proclaimed anything to the Lacedaemonians, the Argives also did that same thing. 78. So Cleomenes, perceiving that the Argives were doing whatever the herald of the Lacedaemonians proclaimed, passed the word to the Lacedaemonians that when the herald should proclaim that they were to get breakfast, then they should take up their arms and go to attack the Argives. This was carried out even so by the Lacedaemonians; for as the Argives were getting breakfast according to the herald’s proclamation, they attacked them; and many of them they slew, but many more yet took refuge in the sacred grove of Argos, and upon these they kept watch, sitting round about the place. Then Cleomenes did this which follows:⁠— 79.