27.
In the same summer the Athenians expelled the Aeginetans and their families from1 Aegina, alleging that they had been the main cause of the war.
The island lies close to Peloponnesus, and they thought it safer to send thither
settlers of their own, an intention which they shortly afterwards carried out.
[2]
The Lacedaemonians gave the Aeginetan exiles the town of Thyrea to occupy
and the adjoining country to cultivate, partly in order to annoy the Athenians, partly
out of gratitude to the Aeginetans, who had done them good service at the time of the
earthquake and the revolt. of the Helots.
The Thyrean territory is a strip of land coming down to the sea on the borders of
Argolis and Laconia.
There some of them found a home; others dispersed over Hellas.
1 The Athenians expel the Aegintans from their country. Some of the exiles are settled by the Lacedaemonians in Thyrea.
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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