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The Online Library of Liberty A Project Of Liberty Fund, Inc. Thucydides, The English Works, vol. IX (The Peloponnesian War Part II) [1839] The Online Library Of Liberty This E-Book (PDF format) is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, non-profit, educational foundation established in 1960 to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. 2010 was the 50th anniversary year of the founding of Liberty Fund. It is part of the Online Library of Liberty web site http://oll.libertyfund.org, which was established in 2004 in order to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. To find out more about the author or title, to use the site's powerful search engine, to see other titles in other formats (HTML, facsimile PDF), or to make use of the hundreds of essays, educational aids, and study guides, please visit the OLL web site. 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Author: Thucydides Translator: Thomas Hobbes Editor: Sir William Molesworth About This Title: Vol. 2 of Hobbes’ translation. Thucydides was one of the greatest of the ancient Greek historians because of his attention to accurate research. His account of the 5th century BC struggle between Athens and Sparta is one of the first works of history to combine political and ethical reflections with history writing. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/772 Online Library of Liberty: The English Works, vol. IX (The Peloponnesian War Part II) About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Copyright Information: The text is in the public domain. Fair Use Statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/772 Online Library of Liberty: The English Works, vol. IX (The Peloponnesian War Part II) Table Of Contents The Fifth Book of the History of Thucydides The Sixth Book of the History of Thucydides. The Seventh Book of the History of Thucydides. The Eighth Book of the History of Thucydides. Errata. Books Published By John Bohn. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/772 Online Library of Liberty: The English Works, vol. IX (The Peloponnesian War Part II) [Back to Table of Contents] THE FIFTH BOOK Of The HISTORY OF THUCYDIDES THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS. The former year’s truce ended, Cleon warreth on the Chalcidic cities, and recovereth Torone.—Phæax is sent by the Athenians to move a war amongst the Sicilians.—Cleon and Brasidas, who were on both sides the principal maintainers of the war, are both slain at Amphipolis.—Presently after their death a peace is concluded: and after that again, a league between the Lacedæmonians and Athenians.—Divers of the Lacedæmonian confederates hereat discontented, seek the confederacy of the Argives. These make league, first with the Corinthians, Eleians, and Mantineans: then with the Lacedæmonians: and then again, by the artifice of Alcibiades, with the Athenians.—After this the Argives make war upon the Epidaurians: and the Lacedæmonians upon the Argives.—The Athenian captains and the Melians treat by way of dialogue touching the yielding of Melos: which the Athenians afterwards besiege and win.—These are the acts of almost six years more of the same war. 1. The summer following, the truce for a year, which was to last year x. A. C. 422. Ol. till the Pythian holidays1 , expired. During this truce, the 89. 2. 3. The truce for Athenians removed the Delians out of Delos, because [though a year expired. they were consecrated, yet] for a certain crime committed of old they esteemed them polluted persons1 : because also they year x. A. C. 422. Ol 89. 2. 3. The Delians thought there wanted this part to make perfect the purgation of removed out of Delos the island; in the purging whereof, as I declared before2 , they upon superstition. thought they did well to take up the sepulchres of the dead. These Delians seated themselves afterwards, every one as he The Delians seat came, in Adramyttium in Asia, a town given unto them by themselves in Adramyttium. Pharnaces. Cleon goeth out with an army into the parts upon Thrace: he assaulteth Torone. year x. A. C. 422. Ol. 89. 2. 3. Pasitelidas with the garrison of the town endeavoureth to defend it. Cleon taketh Torone. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/772 Online Library of Liberty: The English Works, vol. IX (The Peloponnesian War Part II) 2. After the truce was expired, Cleon prevailed with the Pasitelidas, a Athenians to be sent out with a fleet against the cities lying upon Lacedæmonian Thrace. He had with him of Athenians twelve hundred men of captain, taken alive. arms and three hundred horsemen; of confederates more; and thirty galleys. And first arriving at Scione, which was yet Seven hundred men sent prisoners to besieged, he took aboard some men of arms of those that kept the Athens. siege; and sailed into the haven of the Colophonians, not far distant from the city of Torone. And there having heard by year x. A. C. 422. Ol. fugitives that Brasidas was not in Torone, nor those within 89. 2. 3. Panactum sufficient to give him battle, he marched with his army to the taken by the Bœotians. city, and sent ten of his galleys about into the haven. And first he came to the new wall, which Brasidas had raised about the city to take in the suburbs: making a breach in the old wall, that the whole might be one city. 3. And Pasitelidas, a1 Lacedæmonian, captain of the town, with the garrison there present came to the defence, and fought with the Athenians that assaulted it. But being oppressed, and the galleys which were before sent about being by this time come into the haven, Pasitelidas was afraid lest those galleys should take the town, unfurnished of defendants, before he could get back, and that the Athenians on the other side should win the wall2 , and he be intercepted between them both: and thereupon abandoned the wall, and ran back into the city. But the Athenians that were in the galleys having taken the town before he came, and the land–army following in after him without resistance and entering the city by the breach of the old wall, slew some of the Peloponnesians and Toronæans on the place, and some others, amongst whom was the captain Pasitelidas, they took alive. Brasidas was now coming with aid towards Torone: but advertised by the way that it was already lost, went back again; being about forty furlongs short of preventing it. Cleon and the Athenians erected two trophies, one at the haven, another at the wall. The women and children of the Toronæans, they made slaves; but the men of Torone and the Peloponnesians, and such Chalcideans as were amongst them, in all about seven hundred, they sent away prisoners to Athens. The Peloponnesians were afterwards at the making of the peace dismissed; the rest were redeemed by the Olynthians, by exchange of man for man. About the same time the Bœotians took Panactum, a fort of the Athenians standing in their confines, by treason. Cleon, after he had settled the garrison in Torone, went thence by Cleon goeth to sea about the mountain Athos [to make war] against Amphipolis. Amphipolis. Phæax sent ambassador to the Sicilians. The Leontine commons driven out of the city by the Syracusians. The Leontine nobility become Syracusians, PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/772 Online Library of Liberty: The English Works, vol. IX (The Peloponnesian War Part II) 4. About the same time Phæax the son of Erasistratus, who with and go to Syracuse to two others was sent ambassador into Italy and Sicily, departed dwell. from Athens with two galleys. For the Leontines, after the Athenians upon the making of the peace were gone out of Sicily, The Leontines make received many strangers into the freedom of their city: and the war on the Syracusians. commons had a purpose also to have made division of the land1 . But the great men perceiving it, called in the Syracusians, and year x. A. C. 422. Ol. drave the commons out: and they wandered up and down, every 89.