146.
These were the causes of offence alleged on either side before the war began.
The quarrel1 arose immediately out of the affair of Epidamnus and Corcyra.
But, although the contest was imminent, the contending parties still kept up
intercourse and visited each other, without a herald, but not with entire confidence.
For the situation was really an abrogation of the treaty, and might at any time lead to
war.
1 War, though not formally proclaimed, is imminent.
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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