7.
In later times, when navigation had become general and wealth was beginning to
accumulate,1 cities were built upon the sea-shore and fortified; peninsulas too were occupied
and walled-off with a view to commerce and defence against the neighboring tribes.
But the older towns both in the islands and on the continent, in order to protect
themselves against the piracy which so long prevailed, were built inland;
and there they
remain to this day.
For the piratical tribes plundered, not only one
another, but all those who, without being seamen, lived on the sea-coast.
1 Fortified towns began to be built; at first inland, afterwards on the sea-shore.
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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