66.
Such were the causes of ill-feeling which at this time existed between the Athenians
and Peloponnesians: the Corinthians complaining that the Athenians were blockading their
colony of Potidaea, and a Corinthian and Peloponnesian garrison in it; the Athenians
rejoining that a member of the Peloponnesian confederacy had excited to revolt a state
which was an ally and tributary of theirs, and that they had now openly joined the
Potidaeans, and were fighting on their side.
The Peloponnesian war, however, had not yet broken out; the peace still continued;
for
thus far the Corinthians had acted alone.
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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