Passage 4.24.4
Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ τότε, ὡς ἐπεκράτησαν τῆς Μεσσηνίας, τὴν μὲν ἄλλην πλὴν τῆς Ἀσιναίων αὐτοὶ διελάγχανον, Μοθώνην δὲ Ναυπλιεῦσιν ἐδίδοσαν ἐκπεπτωκόσιν ἐκ Ναυπλίας ἔναγχος ὑπὸ Ἀργείων.
The Lacedaemonians at that time, having gained mastery over Messenia, themselves divided among themselves all the territory except that belonging to the Asinaeans; but to the Nauplians they gave Methone, since these had recently been driven out of Nauplia by the Argives.