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- Frontmatter
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- CHAPTER XLVII From the Thirty Years' Truce, fourteen years before the Peloponnesian War, down to the Blockade of Potidæa, in the year before the Peloponnesian War
- CHAPTER XLVIII From the Blockade of Potidæa down to the end of the First Year of the Peloponnesian War
- CHAPTER XLIX From the beginning of the Second Year down to the end of the Third Year of the Peloponnesian War
- CHAPTER L From the Commencement of the Fourth Year of the Peloponnesian War down to the Revolutionary Commotions at Korkyra
- CHAPTER LI From the Troubles in Korkyra, in the Fifth Year of the Peloponnesian War, down to the end of the Sixth Year
- CHAPTER LII Seventh Year of the War.—Capture of Sphakteria
- CHAPTER LIII Eighth Year of the War
- CHAPTER LIV Truce for one year.—Renewal of War and Battle of Amphipolis.—Peace of Nikias
CHAPTER LII - Seventh Year of the War.—Capture of Sphakteria
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XLVII From the Thirty Years' Truce, fourteen years before the Peloponnesian War, down to the Blockade of Potidæa, in the year before the Peloponnesian War
- CHAPTER XLVIII From the Blockade of Potidæa down to the end of the First Year of the Peloponnesian War
- CHAPTER XLIX From the beginning of the Second Year down to the end of the Third Year of the Peloponnesian War
- CHAPTER L From the Commencement of the Fourth Year of the Peloponnesian War down to the Revolutionary Commotions at Korkyra
- CHAPTER LI From the Troubles in Korkyra, in the Fifth Year of the Peloponnesian War, down to the end of the Sixth Year
- CHAPTER LII Seventh Year of the War.—Capture of Sphakteria
- CHAPTER LIII Eighth Year of the War
- CHAPTER LIV Truce for one year.—Renewal of War and Battle of Amphipolis.—Peace of Nikias
Summary
Seventh year of the war—invasion of Attica. b.c. 425
The invasion of Attica by the Lacedæmonians had now become an ordinary enterprise, undertaken in every year of the war except the third and sixth, and then omitted only from accidental causes; though the same hopes were no longer entertained from it as at the commencement of the war. During the present spring, Agis king of Sparta conducted the Peloponnesian army into the territory, seemingly about the end of April, and repeated the usual ravages.
Distress in Korkyra from the attack of the oligarchical exiles. A Peloponnesian fleet, and an Athenian fleet, are both sent thither
It seemed however as if Korkyra were about to become the principal scene of the year's military operations: for the exiles of the oligarchical party, having come back to the island and fortified themselves on Mount Istônê, carried on war with so much activity against the Korkyræans in the city that distress and even famine regined there; while sixty Peloponnesian triremes were sent thither to assist the aggressors. As soon as it became known at Athens how hardly the Korkyræans in the city were pressed, orders were given to an Athenian fleet of forty triremes, about to sail for Sicily under Eurymedon and Sophoklês, to halt in their voyage at Korkyra, and to lend whatever aid might be needed. But during the course of this voyage, an incident occurred elsewhere, neither foreseen nor imagined by any one, which gave a new character and promise to the whole war—illustrating forcibly the observations of Pediclês and Archidamus before its commencement, on the impossibility of calculating what turn events might take.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 425 - 494Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1849