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139.
To return to the Lacedaemonians.
The history of their first embassy, the injunctions which it conveyed, and
the rejoinder which it provoked, concerning the expulsion of the accursed
persons, have been related already.
It was followed by a second, which ordered Athens to raise the siege of
Potidaea, and to respect the independence of Aegina.
Above all, it gave her most distinctly to understand that war might be
prevented by the revocation of the Megara decree, excluding the Megarians
from the use of Athenian harbors and of the market of Athens.
[2]
But Athens was not inclined either to revoke the decree, or to entertain
their other proposals; she accused the Megarians of pushing their cultivation into the consecrated
ground and the unenclosed land on the border, and of harboring her runaway
slaves.
[3]
At last an embassy arrived with the Lacedaemonian ultimatum.
The ambassadors were Rhamphias, Melesippus, and Agesander.
Not a word was said on any of the old subjects; there was simply this:— ‘Lacedaemon wishes the peace to continue, and there is no reason
why it should not, if you would leave the Hellenes independent.
Upon this the Athenians held an assembly, and laid the matter before their
consideration.
It was resolved to deliberate once for all on all their demands, and to
give them an answer.
[4]
There were many speakers who came forward and gave their support to one
side or the other, urging the necessity of war, or the revocation of the
decree and the folly of allowing it to stand in the way of peace.
Among them came forward Pericles, son of Xanthippus, the first man of his
time at Athens, ablest alike in counsel and in action, and gave the
following advice:—
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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