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History of the Peloponnesian War Done Into English
History of the Peloponnesian War Done Into English Author:Thucydides General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: J.M. Dent - sons, ltd. 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 there ... more »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: BOOK I CHAPTER III Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon B. C. 431. The Athenians and Peloponnesians had these antecedent summoned grounds of complaint against each other : the complaint of to Sparta Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthian stance of and Peloponnesinn citizens within it, were being besieged , Corinth. tnat of Athens against the Peloponnesians that they had incited a town of hers, a member of her alliance and a contributor to her revenue, to revolt, and had come and were openly fighting against her on the side of the Poti- daeans. For all this, war had not yet broken out: there was still truce for a while; for this was a private enterprise on the part of Corinth. But the siege of Potidaea put an end to her inaction; she had men inside it: besides, she feared for the place. Immediately summoning the allies to Lacedaemon, she came and loudly accused Athens of breach of the treaty and aggression on the rights of Peloponnese. With her, the jEginetans, formally unrepresented from fear of Athens, in secret proved not the least urgent of the advocates for war, asserting that they had not the independence guaranteed to them by the treaty. After extending the summons to any of their allies and others who might have complaints to make of Athenian aggression, the Lacedaemonians held their ordinary assembly, and invited them to speak. There were many who came forward and made their several ac...« less