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19.
In the first days of the spring following, at
an earlier period than usual, the Lacedaemonians and their allies invaded
Attica, under the command of Agis, son of Archidamus, king of the
Lacedaemonians.
They began by devastating the parts bordering upon the plain, and next
proceeded to fortify Decelea, dividing the work among the different cities.
[2]
Decelea is about thirteen or fourteen miles from the city of Athens, and
the same distance or not much further from Boeotia; and the fort was meant to annoy the plain and the richest parts of the
country, being in sight of Athens.
[3]
While the Peloponnesians and their allies in Attica were engaged in the
work of fortification, their countrymen at home sent off, at about the same
time, the heavy infantry in the merchant vessels to Sicily; the Lacedaemonians furnishing a picked force of Helots and Neodamodes
‘or freedmen）, six hundred heavy infantry in all, under
the command of Eccritus, a Spartan; and the Boeotians three hundred heavy infantry, commanded by two Thebans,
Xenon and Nicon, and by Hegesander, a Thespian.
[4]
These were among the first to put out into the open sea, starting from
Taenarus in Laconia.
Not long after their departure the Corinthians sent off a force of five
hundred heavy infantry, consisting partly of men from Corinth itself, and
partly of Arcadian mercenaries, placed under the command of Alexarchus, a
Corinthian.
The Sicyonians also sent off two hundred heavy infantry at the same time as
the Corinthians, under the command of Sargeus, a Sicyonian.
[5]
Meantime the five-and-twenty vessels manned by Corinth during the winter,
lay confronting the twenty Athenian ships at Naupactus until the heavy
infantry in the merchantmen were fairly on their way from Peloponnese; thus fulfilling the object for which they had been manned originally, which
was to divert the attention of the Athenians from the merchantmen to the
galleys.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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