119.
So they again summoned the allies, intending to put to them the question of war or
peace.1
When their representatives arrived, an assembly was held; and the allies said
what they had to say, most of them complaining of the Athenians and
demanding that the war should proceed.2 The Corinthians had already gone the round of the cities and entreated them
privately to vote for war; they were afraid that they would be too late to save
Potidaea.
At the assembly they came forward last of all and spoke as follows:—
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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