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10. Immediately after the affair at Plataea the Lacedaemonians sent round word to their1 Peloponnesian and other allies, bidding them equip troops and provide all things necessary for a foreign expedition, with the object of invading Attica. [2] The various states made their preparations2 as fast as they could, and at the appointed time, with contingents numbering two-thirds of the forces of each, met at the Isthmus. [3] When the whole army was assembled, Archidamus, the king of the Lacedaemonians, and the leader of the expedition, called together the generals of the different states and their chief officers and most distinguished men, and3 spoke as follows:—

1 The Lacedaemonians summon their allies to meet at the Isthmus.

2 B.C. 431.

3 Speech of Archidamus.

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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