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πρῆγμα ποιήσασθαι, ‘to make much of, value highly’; cf. vi. 63. 2, and for πρῆγμα i. 79. 1.

οὐδέν goes both with ἐπαγγελλομένους and μεταιτέειν; cf. v. 39. 1. Because they valued the king's offer the Argives at first neither offered anything (i. e. alliance to the confederate Greeks) nor made any demand (i. e. for a share in the leadership), but only afterwards made what they knew to be an inadmissible demand.

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