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432 B.CWhen Pythodorus was archon in Athens, the
Romans elected as consuls Titus Quinctius and Nittus Menenius, and the Eleians celebrated the
Eighty-seventh Olympiad, that in which Sophron of Ambracia won the "stadion." In Rome in this year Spurius Maelius was put to death
while striving for despotic power. And the Athenians, who had won a striking victory around
Potidaea, dispatched a second general, Phormion, in
the place of their general Callias who had fallen on the field. After taking over the command
of the army Phormion settled down to the siege of the city of the Potidaeans, making continuous
assaults upon it; but the defenders resisted with vigour and the siege became a long affair.
Thucydides, the Athenian,
commenced his history with this year, giving an account of the war between the Athenians and
the Lacedaemonians, the war which has been called the Peloponnesian. This war lasted
twenty-seven years, but Thucydides de
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 27 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 29 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 46 (search)
Meanwhile the Corinthians completed their
preparations, and sailed for Corcyra with a hundred and fifty ships.
Of these Elis furnished ten, Megara twelve, Leucas ten, Ambracia
twenty-seven, Anactorium one, and Corinth herself ninety.
Each of these contingents had its own admiral,
the Corinthian being under
the command of Xenoclides, son of Euthycles, with four colleagues.
Sailing from Leucas, they made land at the part of the continent opposite
Corcyra.
They anchored in the harbor of Chimerium, in the territory of Thesprotis,
above which, at some distance from the sea, lies the city of Ephyre, in the
Elean district.
By this city the Acherusian lake pours its waters into the s
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 80 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 113 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 114 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 4, chapter 42 (search)