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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 2 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 9 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 58 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 71 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 101 (search)
Meanwhile the Thasians being defeated in the field and suffering siege,
appealed to Lacedaemon, and desired her to assist them by an invasion of
Attica.
Without informing Athens she promised and intended to do so, but was
prevented by the occurrence of the earthquake, accompanied by the secession
of the Helots and the Thuriats and Aethaeans of the Perioeci to Ithome.
Most of the Helots were the descendants of the old Messenians that were
enslaved in the famous war; and so all of them came to be called Messenians.
So the Lacedaemonians being engaged in a war with the rebels in Ithome, the
Thasians in the third year of the siege obtained terms from the Athenians by
razing their walls, delivering up their ships, and arranging to
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 109 (search)
Meanwhile the Athenians in Egypt and their
allies were still there, and encountered all the vicissitudes of war.
First the Athenians were masters of Egypt, and the king sent Megabyzus, a
Persian, to Lacedaemon with money to bribe the Peloponnesians to invade
Attica and so draw off the Athenians from Egypt.
Finding that the matter made no progress, and that the money was only being
wasted, he recalled Megabazus with the remainder of the money, and sent
Megabuzus, son of Zopyrus, a Persian, with a large army to Egypt.
Arriving by land he defeated the Egyptians and their allies in a battle,
and drove the Hellenes out of Memphis, and at length shut them up in the
island of Prosopitis, where he besiege
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 114 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 125 (search)
The Lacedaemonians having now heard all give their opinion, took the vote
of all the allied states present in order, great and small alike; and the majority voted for war.
This decided, it was still impossible for them to commence at once, from
their want of preparation; but it was resolved that the means requisite were to be procured by the
different states, and that there was to be no delay.
And indeed, in spite of the time occupied with the necessary arrangements,
less than a year elapsed before Attica was invaded, and the war openly
begun.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 126 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 138 (search)