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THE ENGLISH WORKS THOMAS HOBBES OF MALMESBURY; NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND EDITED BY SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, BART. LONDON : JOHN BOHN, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDE~. 3fDCCCXLIII. La' LOBDON : RICHARDS, PRINTER, lw, ST. MARTIN'S LANE. THE HISTORY GRECIAN WAR WRITTEY nY THUCYDIDES. TXANSLATED UY THOMAS HOBBES OF MALMESBURY. - VOL. 11. -- LONDON: JOHN BOHN, €fENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GADBU. - MDCCCXLIII. b Q 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.-Phaax is sent by the Athen- ians to move a war amongst the Sicilians.-Cleon and Brasi- das, mho were on both sides the principal maintainer8 of the war, are both slain at Amphipolis.-Presently after their death a peace is concluded : and after that again, a league between the Lacedemonians and Athenians.-Divers of the Lacedae- monian confederates hereat discontented, seek the confederacy of the Argives. These make league, first with the Corinth- ians, Eleians, and Mantineans : then with the Lacedemonians : and then again, by the artifice of Alcibindes, with the Athen- ians.-After this the Argires make war upon the Epidaurians: and the Lacedemonians upon the Argives.-The Athenian captains and the Melians treat by way of dialogue touching the yielding of Melos : which the Athenians afterwards .be- v. siege and win.-These are the acts of almost six years more ,-. of the same war. YEAR X. A. C. 422. 1. THE summer following, the truce for a year, T~;,~~k~o~~, which was to last till the Pythian holidays’, expired, year axpired. ‘ Exercises dedicated to Apollo, Corsini, Boeckh, Mueller, Goeller, and celebrated at Delphi about the and others : who take the meaning twelfth of the month Elaphebolium, of this passage to be, that “the as may be gathered by the begin- truce was dissolved, and war again ning of the truce on that day. [In renewed np to the time of the the month Elaphebolion of the third Pythian games”, at which time fol- year of the Olympiad, according to lowed the peace; see ch. 19. In VOL. IX. B 2 THE HISTORY V. During this truce, the Athenians removed the C-L-?YEAR X. Delians out of Delos, because [though they were * c 42%. consecrated, yet] for a certain crime committed of or. RD 2.3. The Delians old they esteemed them polluted persons': because removed out of Delosupol, also they thought there wanted this part to make superstition. perfect the purgation of the island ; in the purging whereof, as I declared before2, they thought they did well to take up the sepulchres of the dead. The Delians seat These Delians seated themselves afterwards, every themselves in Adramyttium. one as he came, in Adramyttium in Asia, a town given unto them by Pharnaces. Clem gneth ont 2. After the truce was expired, Cleon prevailed with an Rrmy intotl,rparts with the Athenians to be sent out with a fleet upon Tlirace: against the cities lying upon Thrace. He had with him of Athenians twelve hundred men of arms and three hundred horsemen ; of confederates more ; and thirty galleys. And first arriving at Scione, which was yet besieged, he took aboard some men of arms of those that kept the siege; and sailed into the haven of the Colophonians, not far distant hebssaulteth from the city of Torone. And there having heard Torone. by fugitives that Brasidas was not in Torone, nor those within sufficient to give him battle, he marched with his army to the city, and sent ten of his galleys about into the haven. And first he the month Hecatombeon of the functions of priest".-They are said same gear, according to Arnold,who by Diodorus to have incurred the follows Haack and others in ren- displeasure of Athens by their at- dering the passage: " the truce tachment to Sparta. The com- having lasted till the celebration of mand of the Delphic oracle for their the Pythian games, then ended". restoration (see ch. 32.) seems to The passage has given rise to much show aconnexion between them and controversy,which concerns the date that oracle, which may have afforded of the Pythian games rather than them the opportunity of injuring any fact in this history.] Athens. Thirlwnll.] 1 [" Not pure to perform the [See iii. 104.1 f OF THUCYDIDES. 3 cabe to the new wall, which Brasidas had raised v. about the city to take in the suburbs: making a YEAR X. breach in the old wall, that the whole might be OL.A. C. 8P.3.3. 422. one city. 3. And Pasitelidas, a' LacedEmonian, Pasitelidas with the garrison of captain of the town, with the garrison there pre- the town eudes- roureth to sent came to the defence, and fought with the defend it, 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 wall', and he be intercepted between them both : and thereupon abandoned the wall, and ran back into the city. But the Clem tnliet11 Athenians that were in the galleys having takenTorone* the town before he came, and the land-army fol- lowing in after him without resistance and entering the city by the breach of the old wall, slew some of the Peloponnesians and Toronaeans on the place, and some others, amongst whom was the captain Pasitelidas, a Lacerlsrnonian Pasitelidas, they took alive. Brasidas was now qtaiu, tal<en coming with aid towards Torone : but advertised 'live* by the way that it vas already lost, went back again ; being about forty furlongs short of prevent- ing it. Cleon and the Athenians erected two trophies, one at the haven, another at the wall. The women and children of the Toronzans, they made slaves ; but the men of Torone and the Pelo- ponnesians, and such Chalcideans as were amongst them, in all about seven hundred, they sent away Seven hundred nien sent pri- prisoners to Athens. The Peloponnesians were sonersto Atheits. [The Lacedcmoninn. ir. 182 3 [That is, the new wall.] B2 4 THE HISTORY V. afterwards at the making of the peace dismissed ; the rest were redeemed by the Blynthians, by ex- -YEAR X A. c. 424. change of man for man. OL.89.2.3. Pwactllmtaken About the same time the Bceotians took Panac- by the Beotians. turn, a fort of the Athenians standing in their con- fines, by treason. Cleongoethto Cleon, after he had settled the garrison in Amphipolis, Torone, went thence by sea about the mountain Athos [to make war] against Amphipolis. Phmax sent ain- 4. About the same time Phaax the son of Erasis- hasredor to the Sicilians. tratus, who with two others was sent ambassador into Italy and Sicily, departed from Athens with two galleys. For the Leontines, after the Athenjaris upon the making of the peace were gone out of Sicily, received many strangers into the freedom of their city : and the commons had a purpose also TheLeontine to have made division of the land'. But the great coinnirmc driven O,lt I,f t,;; by men perceiving it, called in the S yracusians, and the Syracusians. drave the commons out : and they wandered up The Leontine arid down, every one as he chanced ; and the great nohility become Ryracusisns,and men, upon conditions agreed on with the Syracus- ians, abandoning and deserting' that city, went to tovu dweil.to dwell with the privilege of free citizens in Syra- cuse. After this again, some of them upon dislike relinquished Syracuse, and seized on Phocea, a certain place part of the city of the Leontines, and upon Bricinniae, a castle in the Leontine territory. Tlie Leontines Thither also came unto them most of the commons make war on the Syracusians, that had before been driven out : and settling them- selves, made war from those places of strength. Upon intelligence hereof the Athenians sent Phaax ~~ 1 [That is, the land of the state: laws concerned only the public not the private property of indivi- lands. See Arnold's note.] duals, As at Rome, the agrarian p' Making desert".] OF THUCYDIDES. 5 thither, to persuade their confederabs there, and, V. if they could, all the Sicilians jointly, to make war - upon the Syracueians, that were now beginning to A. c. 422. OL. 80.2.3. grow great ; to try if they might thereby preserve Phicax inoveth the Sicilians to the common people of the Leontines. Phaeax arriv- war upon the ing, prevailed with the Camarinaeans and Agrigen- S~racusians* tines : but the business finding a stop at Gela, he The Gelans stop the inotion made went unto no more, as conceiving he should not be by Phieax. able to persuade them. So he returned through the cities of the Siculi unto Catana, having been at Bricinniae by the way and there encouraged them to hold out: and from Catana he set sail and departed. 5. In his voyage to Sicily, both going and coming, he dealt as he went by with sundry cities also of Italy, to enter into friendship with the Athenians. He also lighted on those Locrians, which’ having dwelt once in Messana, were after- wards driven out again ; being the same men, which after the peace in Sicily, upon a sedition in hles- sana, wherein one of the factions called in the Locrians, had been then sent to inhabit there, [and now were sent away again] : for the Locrians held Messana for a while.