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12.
With this brief speech dismissing the
assembly, Archidamus first sent off Melesippus, son of Diacritus, a Spartan,
to Athens, in case she should be more inclined to submit on seeing the
Peloponnesians actually on the march.
[2]
But the Athenians did not admit him into the city or to their assembly; Pericles having already carried a motion against admitting either herald or
embassy from the Lacedaemonians after they had once marched out.
The herald was accordingly sent away without an audience, and ordered to be
beyond the frontier that same day; in future, if those who sent him had a proposition to make they must retire
to their own territory before they dispatched embassies to Athens.
An escort was sent with Melesippus to prevent his holding communication
with any one.
[3]
When he reached the frontier and was just going to be dismissed, he
departed with these words: ‘This day will be the beginning of
great misfortunes to the Hellenes.’
[4]
As soon as he arrived at the camp, and Archidamus learnt that the Athenians
had still no thoughts of submitting, he at length began his march, and
advanced with his army into their territory.
[5]
Meanwhile the Boeotians, sending their contingent and cavalry to join the
Peloponnesian expedition, went to Plataea with the remainder and laid waste
the country.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax, 934
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PRONOUNS
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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- LSJ, ἀείρω
- LSJ, ἀγωγός
- LSJ, αὐθήμερ-ος
- LSJ, διαλύω
- LSJ, ἐκστρα^τ-εύω
- LSJ, ἐνδίδωμι
- LSJ, κοινός
- LSJ, λύω
- LSJ, νι_κάω
- LSJ, ὅριον
- LSJ, οὕτως
- LSJ, προσδέχομαι
- LSJ, προχωρ-έω
- LSJ, συγγίγνομαι
- LSJ, συμπέμπω
- LSJ, συστρα^τ-εύω
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