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80.
The attacks of the Athenians upon Peloponnese, and in particular upon
Laconia, might, it was hoped, be diverted most effectually by annoying them
in return, and by sending an army to their allies, especially as they were
willing to maintain it and asked for it to aid them in revolting.
[2]
The Lacedaemonians were also glad to have an excuse for sending some of the
Helots out of the country, for fear that the present aspect of affairs and
the occupation of Pylos might encourage them to move.
[3]
Indeed fear of their numbers and obstinacy even persuaded the
Lacedaemonians to the action which I shall now relate, their policy at all
times having been governed by the necessity of taking precautions against
them.
The Helots were invited by a proclamation to pick out those of their number
who claimed to have most distinguished themselves against the enemy, in
order that they might receive their freedom; the object being to test them, as it was thought that the first to claim
their freedom would be the most high spirited and the most apt to rebel.
[4]
As many as two thousand were selected accordingly, who crowned themselves
and went round the temples, rejoicing in their new freedom.
The Spartans, however, soon afterwards did away with them, and no one ever
knew how each of them perished.
[5]
The Spartans now therefore gladly sent seven hundred as heavy infantry with
Brasidas, who recruited the rest of his force by means of money in
Peloponnese.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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