19.
But when they had assaulted Oenoè, and after leaving no means untried were
unable to take it, and no herald came from the Athenians, at last they
marched on, and about the eightieth day after the entry of the Thebans into Plataea, in
the middle of the summer1,2 when the corn was in full ear, invaded Attica, under the command of Archidamus
the son of Zeuxidamus the Lacedaemonian king.
[2]
They encamped and ravaged, first of all, Eleusis and the plain of Thria, where they put
to flight some Athenian horse near the streams called Rheiti; they then advanced,
keeping Mount Aegaleos on the right hand, through the district of Kropeia until they
reached Acharnae, which is the largest of the Athenian townships or demes, as they are
called; and at Acharnae they encamped, and remained there a considerable time ravaging
the country.
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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