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107.
About this time the Athenians began to build
the long walls to the sea, that towards Phalerum and that towards Piraeus.
[2]
Meanwhile the Phocians made an expedition against Doris, the old home of
the Lacedaemonians, containing the towns of Boeum, Kitinium, and Erineum.
They had taken one of these towns, when the Lacedaemonians under Nicomedes,
son of Cleombrotus, commanding for King Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, who
was still a minor, came to the aid of the Dorians with fifteen hundred heavy
infantry of their own, and ten thousand of their allies.
After compelling the Phocians to restore the town on conditions, they began
their retreat.
[3]
The route by sea, across the Crissaean gulf, exposed them to the risk of
being stopped by the Athenian fleet; that across Geraneia seemed scarcely safe, the Athenians holding Megara and
Pegae.
For the pass was a difficult one, and was always guarded by the Athenians; and, in the present instance, the Lacedaemonians had information that they
meant to dispute their passage.
[4]
So they resolved to remain in Boeotia, and to consider which would be the
safest line of march.
They had also another reason for this resolve.
Secret encouragement had been given them by a party in Athens, who hoped to
put an end to the reign of democracy and the building of the long walls.
[5]
Meanwhile the Athenians marched against them with their whole levy and a
thousand Argives and the respective contingents of the rest of their allies.
Altogether they were fourteen thousand strong.
[6]
The march was prompted by the notion that the Lacedaemonians were at a loss
how to effect their passage, and also by suspicions of an attempt to
overthrow the democracy.
[7]
Some cavalry also joined the Athenians from their Thessalian allies; but these went over to the Lacedaemonians during the battle.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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