67.
But now, seeing Potidaea besieged, they bestirred themselves in earnest.
Corinthian troops1 were shut up within the walls, and they were afraid of losing the town; so
without delay they invited the allies to meet at Sparta.
There they inveighed against the Athenians, whom they affirmed to have broken the
treaty and to be wronging the Peloponnese.
[2]
The Aeginetans did not venture to send envoys openly, but secretly they acted with the
Corinthians, and were among the chief instigators of the war, declaring that they had
been robbed of the independence which the treaty guaranteed them.
[3]
The Lacedaemonians themselves then2 proceeded to summon any of the allies who had similar charges3
to bring against the Athenians, and calling their own ordinary assembly
told them to speak.
[4]
Several of them came forward and stated their wrongs. The Megarians alleged, among other grounds of complaint, that they were excluded from
all harbours within the Athenian dominion and from the Athenian market, contrary to the
treaty.
[5]
The Corinthians waited until the other allies had stirred up the Lacedaemonians; at
length they came forward, and, last of all, spoke as follows:—
1 Excitement of the Corinthians. Assembly at Sparta. Grievances of the Aeginetans and Megainans.
2 Or, adopting the inferior reading τῶν ξυμμάχων τε καὶ εἴ τις: 'proceeded to summon any of their own allies, and any one else, who had similar charges,' etc.
3 Or, adopting the inferior reading τῶν ξυμμάχων τε καὶ εἴ τις: 'proceeded to summon any of their own allies, and any one else, who had similar charges,' etc.
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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