Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, BOOK I, chapter 94

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94. Pausanias the son of Cleombrotus was now sent from Peloponnesus with twenty ships in¹ command of the Hellenic forces; thirty Athenian ships and a number of the allies sailed with him. [2] They first made an expedition against Cyprus, of which they subdued the greater part; and afterwards against Byzantium, which was in the hands of the Persians, and was taken while he was still in command.

1 Cyprus and Byzantium taken. Tyranny and unpopularity of Pausanias.

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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- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.106
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- Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, Lyc. 1 129
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, Athenian Empire in the Golden Age
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 1.128
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