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112. After an interval of three years a five years' truce was concluded between the Peloponnesians1 and Athenians. [2] The Athenians now abstained from war in Hellas itself, but2 made an expedition to Cyprus with two hundred ships of their own and of their allies, under the command of Cimon. [3] Sixty ships were detached from the armament and sailed to Egypt, at the request of Amyrtaeus the king in the fens; the remainder proceeded to blockade Citium. [4] Here Cimon died, and a famine arose in the country; so the fleet3 quitted Citium. Arriving off Salamis in Cyprus they fought at sea and also on land with Phoenician and Cilician forces. Gaining a victory in both engagements, they returned home, accompanied by the ships which had gone out with them and had now come back from Egypt. [5] After this the Lacedaemonians engaged in the so-called Sacred War and gained possession of the temple of Delphi, which they handed over to the Delphians. But no sooner had they retired than the Athenians sent an expedition and recovered the temple, which they handed over to the Phocians.

1 B.C. 450.

2 Truce for five years. Expedition to Cyprus. More ships sent to Egypt. Death of Cimon. Battles at Salamis in Cyprus.

3 B.C. 449.

Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.

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