Thucydides in English Author:Thucydides General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1830 Original Publisher: H. Slatter, and J. Vincent Subjects: Greece History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / Europe / Greece Travel / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and th... more »ere 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 books for free. Excerpt: THUCYDIDES. BOOK V. Nearly ix years more of the war. Truce of the former year ended. Clean icars on the Chalcidic cities, and recovers Tonne. Phceax sent by the Athenians to move a tear amongst the Sicilians. Clean and Bratidas, who were the principal main- tainers of the war, both slain at Amphipolis. Presently after their death a peace concluded, after that a league between the Lacedamonians and the Athenians. Divers of the Lacediemonian confederates discontented thereat, seek the confederacy of the Argives. These make league, first with the Corinthians, Eleans, and lUax- tineans, then with the Lacedaemonians; and then again (by the artifice of Alci- biades) with the Athenians. After this the Argives make war on the Epidaurians; and the Lacedaemonians on the Argives. The Athenian captains and the Melians treat by way of dialogue, touching the yielding of Alelas, which the Athenian, afterwards besiege and win. YEAR X. A. C. 422. OLYMP. 89-f CHAP. I. A IIE summer following, the truce for a year, which was to last till the Pythian holidays,1 expired; during the truce, the Athenians removed the Delians from Delos , because though they were consecrated, yet for a certain crime committed of old, they esteemed them polluted ; because also they thought there wanted this part to make perfect the purgation of the island; in the purging whereof, as I declared before,3 they thought they did well to take up the sepulchres of the dead. ...« less