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6. The Peloponnesian army in Attica, when they heard that Pylos had been occupied, quickly1 returned home, Agis and the Lacedaemonians thinking that this matter touched them very nearly. The invasion had been made quite early in the year while the corn was yet green, and they were in want of food for their soldiers; moreover the wet and unseasonable weather had distressed them, so that on many grounds they were inclined to return sooner than they had intended. [2] This was the shortest of all the Peloponnesian invasions; they only remained fifteen days in Attica.

1 Recall of the Peloponnesians from Attica.

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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