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The History of the Peloponnesian War, Tr. by W. Smith. to Which Are Annexed Three Preliminary Discourses
The History of the Peloponnesian War Tr by W Smith to Which Are Annexed Three Preliminary Discourses Author:Thucydides General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1781 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE PELO PONN ESI AN WAR. BOOK V. Year X. N the following fummer4 the truce, made fora year, expired, of courfe, at the time of the Pythian Games. And, during this relaxation from war, the Athenians caufed the Delians to evacuate the ifle of Delos; imagining that, upon the taint of fome crimes long fince committed, they were not fufficiently pure to perform due lervice to the God, and that this yet was wanting to render that work of purgation complete, in which, as I have already related, they thought themfelves jufti- lfied in demoliming the fepulchres of the dead. The Delians fettled again, fo fail as they could remove themfelves thither, at Atramyttium, bellowed upon them for thispurpofe by Pharnaces. . Cleon, having obtained the commifllon from the Athenians, went by fea into the Thracian dominions, fo Vol. II. B foon J Before Chrift 422. , Cleon is now grown perfectly convinced that he is a very hero, and hath prevailed upon a majority of the people of Athens to be of the fame mind, fince, feriouf- ly and deliberately, they intruft him with a moft important and delicate commifiion. He now imagines he can carry 2]) before him, and pluck all the laurels of Brafidas from the head of that accomplifhed Spartan, even without having Demofthenes for bis fecond. We may guefs to what an height of infolence he was now grown from the foon as the fufpenfion of arms expired, having under his command twelve hundred Heavy-armed Athenians, three hundred horfemen, and larger numbers of their allied forces. His whole armament confifted of thirty fail. Touching firft at Scione, yet blocked up, he drew from...« less