Having thus conjectured he came back to Sparta and declared the whole matter to the Lacedaemonians; and they brought a charge against him on a fictitious pretext and drove him out into exile.

89 So having come to Tegea, he told the smith of his evil fortune and endeavoured to hire from him the enclosure, but at first he would not allow him to have it: at length however Lichas persuaded him and he took up his abode there; and he dug up the grave and gathered together the bones and went with them away to Sparta. From that time, whenever they made trial of one another, the Lacedaemonians had much the advantage in the war; and by now they had subdued to themselves the greater part of Peloponnesus besides.