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16.
Now, however, after the Athenian defeat at
Amphipolis, and the death of Cleon and Brasidas, who had been the two
principal opponents of peace on either side—the latter from the
success and honor which war gave him, the former because he thought that, if
tranquillity were restored, his crimes would be more open to detection and
his slanders less credited—the foremost candidates for power in
either city, Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, king of Lacedaemon, and Nicias,
son of Niceratus, the most fortunate general of his time, each desired peace
more ardently than ever.
Nicias, while still happy and honored, wished to secure his good fortune,
to obtain a present release from trouble for himself and his countrymen, and
hand down to posterity a name as an ever-successful statesman, and thought
the way to do this was to keep out of danger and commit himself as little as
possible to fortune, and that peace alone made this keeping out of danger
possible.
Pleistoanax, again, was assailed by his enemies for his restoration, and
regularly held up by them to the prejudice of his countrymen, upon every
reverse that befell them, as though his unjust restoration were the cause;
[2]
the accusation being that he and his brother Aristocles had bribed the
prophetess of Delphi to tell the Lacedaemonian deputations which
successively arrived at the temple to bring home the seed of the demigod son
of Zeus from abroad, else they would have to plough with a silver share.
[3]
In this way, it was insisted, in time he had induced the Lacedaemonians in
the nineteenth year of his exile to Lycaeum （whither he had gone
when banished on suspicion of having been bribed to retreat from Attica, and
had built half his house within the consecrated precinct of Zeus for fear of
the Lacedaemonians）, to restore him with the same dances and
sacrifices with which they had instituted their kings upon the first
settlement of Lacedaemon.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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