26.
In the beginning of the summer after they had sent Alcidas away with the forty-two galleys, whereof he was admiral, unto Mytilene, both they and their confederates invaded Attica to the end that the Athenians, troubled on both sides, might the less send supply against the fleet now gone to Mytilene.
[2]
In this expedition Cleomenes was general instead of Pausanias, the son of Pleistoanax, who being king was yet in minority;
and Cleomenes was his uncle by the father.
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And they now cut down both what they had before wasted and began to grow again, and also whatsoever else they had before pretermitted: and this was the sharpest invasion of all but the second.
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For whilst they stayed to hear news from their fleet at Lesbos, which by this time they supposed to have been arrived, they went abroad and destroyed most part of the country.
But when nothing succeeded according to their hopes and seeing their corn failed, they retired again and were dissolved according to their cities.
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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