The History Of The Peloponnesian War, Volume I - Plot & Excerpts
- Vol. 8 Pericles imagining Archidamus might spare his grounds, promiseth, if he did, to give them to the state. The speech of Pericles to the assembly at Athens, touching the means of the war, c. year 1. A. C. 431. Ol. 87. 1. The treasure of the people of Athens. year 1. A. C. 431. Ol. 87. 1. The length of the walls to which the watchmen were appointed. year 1. A. C. 431. Ol. 87. 1. Their galleys. 13. Whilst the Peloponnesians were coming together in the isthmus, and when they were on their march, before they brake into Attica, Pericles the son of Xantippus, who with nine others was general of the Athenians, when he saw they were about to break in, suspecting that Archidamus, either of private courtesy or by command of the Lacedæmonians to bring him into jealousy, (as they had before for his sake commanded the excommunication), might oftentimes 2 leave his lands untouched, told the Athenians beforehand in an assembly, “that though Archidamus had been his guest, it was for no ill to the state; and howsoever, if the enemy did not waste his lands and houses as well as the rest, that then he gave them to the commonwealth”; and therefore desired “that for this he might not be suspected”.
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