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21.
In the meanwhile, as long as the army was at
Eleusis and the Thriasian plain, hopes were still entertained of its not
advancing any nearer.
It was remembered that Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, king of Lacedaemon,
had invaded Attica with a Peloponnesian army fourteen years before, but had
retreated without advancing farther than Eleusis and Thria, which indeed
proved the cause of his exile from Sparta, as it was thought he had been
bribed to retreat.
[2]
But when they saw the army at Acharnae, barely seven miles from Athens,
they lost all patience.
The territory of Athens was being ravaged before the very eyes of the
Athenians, a sight which the young men had never seen before and the old
only in the Median wars; and it was naturally thought a grievous insult, and the determination was
universal, especially among the young men, to sally forth and stop it.
[3]
Knots were formed in the streets and engaged in hot discussion; for if the proposed sally was warmly recommended, it was also in some cases
opposed.
Oracles of the most various import were recited by the collectors, and
found eager listeners in one or other of the disputants.
Foremost in pressing for the sally were the Acharnians, as constituting no
small part of the army of the state, and as it was their land that was being
ravaged.
In short, the whole city was in a most excited state; Pericles was the object of general indignation; his previous counsels were totally forgotten; he was abused for not leading out the army which he commanded, and was made
responsible for the whole of the public suffering.
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