Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE SEVENTH BOOK, chapter 27

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27. The same winter also came to Athens a thousand and three hundred targetiers, of those called Machaerophori of the race of them that are called Dii, and were to have gone with Demosthenes into Sicily. [2] But coming too late, the Athenians resolved to send them back again into Thrace, as being too chargeable a matter to entertain them only for the war in Deceleia; for their pay was to have been a drachma a man by the day. [3] For Deceleia, being this summer fortified first by the whole army and then by the several cities maintained with a garrison by turns, much endamaged the Athenians and weakened their estate, both by destroying their commodities and consuming of their men, so as nothing more. [4] For the former invasions, having been short, hindered them not from reaping the benefit of the earth for the rest of the time. But now, the enemy continually lying upon them, and sometimes with greater forces, sometimes of necessity with the ordinary garrison making incursions and fetching in booty, Agis, the king of Lacedaemon, being always there in person and diligently prosecuting the war, the Athenians were thereby very grievously afflicted. [5] For they were not only deprived of the fruit of the land, but also above twenty thousand of their slaves fled over to the enemy, whereof the greatest part were artificers; besides they lost all their sheep and oxen. And by the continual going out of the Athenian horsemen, making excursions to Deceleia and defending the country, their horses became partly lamed through incessant labour in rugged grounds and partly wounded by the enemy.

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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.91
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.19
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.42
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.86
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.95
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.139
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.142
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, The dispute between Corinth and Corcyra. Chaps. 24-55.
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- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.81
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), ARTIF´ICES
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), EXE´RCITUS
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), MERCENA´RII
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), SERVUS
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), SO´LEA
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Aftermath of the Peloponnesian War
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 8.95
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- LSJ, ὄλεθρ-ος
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