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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1848. Excerpt: ... worse patriots than the men at Athens. Even Alcibiades, should they grant him an indemnity and a safe return, would readily procure them the king''s alliance : and, what had the greatest weight, should they miscarry in every branch of their present designs, many places of refuge lay always open to men possessed of so considerable a fleet, in which they might find fresh cities and another country. After such occurrences in the assembly convened by the soldiery, and the conclusion of their mutual exhortations, they continued their preparations for war with unremitting diligence. But the deputation of ten, sent from the four hundred to Samos, being informed of these proceedings when they were advanced in their voyage so far as Delos, thought proper to proceed no farther. About this very time, the Peloponnesians on board the fleet stationed at Miletus clamoured loudly among themselves, that *'' they were betrayed by Astyochus and Tissaphernes ; as the former had already refused to engage, when themselves were hearty and in fine condition, and the fleet of the Athenians was small; nor would do so even now, when the latter were reported to be embroiled with intestine seditions, and their own ships were daily impairing ; -but, under pretext of a Phoenician fleet to be brought up by Tissaphernes, an aid merely nominal, and which would never join them, ho was ruining all by dilatory measures. And as for Tissaphernes, it was never his intention to bring up that fleet; but he was plainly undermining the strength of theirs, by not supplying them constantly and fully with their pay. The time, therefore, they insisted, ought no longer to be thus idly wasted, but an engagement hazarded at once. Yet in such clamours those deepest concerned were the Syracusans. The confederates and Astyochus himself... Thucydides, Books, History, History Of The Peloponnesian War (volume 1); Translated From The Greek Of Thucydides Books>History, General Books LLC<

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