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19. The Athenians, being in want of money to carry on the siege, raised among themselves for the1 first time a property-tax of two hundred talents2, and sent out twelve ships to collect tribute among the allies, under the command of Lysicles and four others. [2] He sailed to various places and exacted tribute; but as he was going up from Myus in Caria, through the plain of the Maeander, he was attacked at the hill of Sandius by the Carians and the Samians of Anaea3, and, with a great part of his army, perished.

1 The Athenians raise a property-tax; and Lysicles is sent to collect tribute; he is killed in Caria

2 £40,000.

3 Cp. 3.32 init.; 4.75 med.

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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  • Commentary references to this page (16):
    • E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.3
    • E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.32
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.105
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.18
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.32
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.89
    • T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.3
    • T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.58
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER L
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXXV
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.29
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.33
    • Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.33
    • Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.115
    • Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.128
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.4
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    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), ARGYRO´LOGOI
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), EI´SPHORA
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ANNAEA or ANAEA
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CA´RIA
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MYUS
    • Smith's Bio, Lysicles
  • Cross-references in notes to this page (2):
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 3.32
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 4.75
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.32
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.75
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