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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 67 (search)
But the siege of Potidaea put an end to her
inaction; she had men inside it: besides, she feared for the place.
Immediately summoning the allies to Lacedaemon, she came and loudly accused
Athens of breach of the treaty and aggression on the rights of Peloponnese.
With her, the Aeginetans, formally unrepresented from fear of Athens, in
secret proved not the least urgent of the advocates for war, asserting that
they had not the independence guaranteed to them by the treaty.
After extending the summons to any of their allies and others who might
have complaints to make of Athenian aggression, the Lacedaemonians held
their ordinary assembly, and invited them to speak.
There were many who came forward and
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 68 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 71 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 85 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 118 (search)
After this, though not many years later, we
at length come to what has been already related, the affairs of Corcyra and
Potidaea, and the events that served as a pretext for the present war.
All these actions of the Hellenes against each other and the barbarian
occurred in the fifty years' interval between the retreat of Xerxes and the
beginning of the present war.
During this interval the Athenians succeeded in placing their empire on a
firmer basis, and advanced their own home power to a very great height.
The Lacedaemonians, though fully aware of it, opposed it only for a little
while, but remained inactive during most of the period, being of old slow to
go to war except under the pressure of necessity,
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 119 (search)
Still they wished to summon their allies again, and to take their vote on
the propriety of making war.
After the ambassadors from the confederates had arrived and a congress had
been convened, they all spoke their minds, most of them denouncing the
Athenians and demanding that the war should begin.
In particular the Corinthians.
They had before on their own account canvassed the cities in detail to
induce them to vote for the war, in the fear that it might come too late to
save Potidaea; they were present also on this occasion, and came forward the last, and
made the following speech:—
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 124 (search)
Your position, therefore, from whatever quarter you may view it, will amply
justify you in going to war; and this step we recommend in the interests of all, bearing in mind that
identity of interests is the surest of bonds whether between states or
individuals.
Delay not, therefore, to assist Potidaea, a Dorian city besieged by
Ionians, which is quite a reversal of the order of things; nor to assert the freedom of the rest.
It is impossible for us to wait any longer when waiting can only mean
immediate disaster for some of us, and, if it comes to be known that we have
conferred but do not venture to protect ourselves, like disaster in the near
future for the rest.
Delay not, fellow allies, but convinced of the necessity of the cris
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 139 (search)
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.
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 consecrate
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 140 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 2 (search)
The thirty years' truce which was entered
into after the conquest of Euboea lasted fourteen years.
In the fifteenth, in the forty-eighth year of the priestess-ship of Chrysis
at Argos, in the Ephorate of Aenesias at Sparta, in the last month but two
of the Archonship of Pythodorus at Athens, and six months after the battle
of Potidaea, just at the beginning of spring, a Theban force a little over
three hundred strong, under the command of their Boeotarchs, Pythangelus,
son of Phyleides, and Diemporus, son of Onetorides, about the first watch of
the night, made an armed entry into Plataea, a town of Boeotia in alliance
with Athens.
The gates were opened to them by a Plataean called Naucleides, who, with