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26.
The history of this period has been also
written by the same Thucydides, and Athenian, in the chronological order of
events by summers and winters, to the time when the Lacedaemonians and their
allies put an end to the Athenian empire, and took the Long Walls and
Piraeus.
The war had then lasted for twenty-seven years in all.
[2]
Only a mistaken judgment can object to including the interval of treaty in
the war.
Looked at by the light of facts it cannot, it will be found, be rationally
considered a state of peace, where neither party either gave or got back all
that they had agreed, apart from the violations of it which occurred on both
sides in the Mantinean and Epidaurian wars and other instances, and the fact
that the allies in the direction of Thrace were in as open hostility as
ever, while the Boeotians had only a truce renewed every ten days.
[3]
So that the first ten years' war, the treacherous armistice that followed
it, and the subsequent war will, calculating by the seasons, be found to
make up the number of years which I have mentioned, with the difference of a
few days, and to afford an instance of faith in oracles being for once
justified by the event.
[4]
I certainly all along remember from the beginning to the end of the war its
being commonly declared that it would last thrice nine years.
[5]
I lived through the whole of it, being of an age to comprehend events, and
giving my attention to them in order to know the exact truth about them.
It was also my fate to be an exile from my country for twenty years after
my command at Amphipolis; and being present with both parties, and more especially with the
Peloponnesians by reason of my exile, I had leisure to observe affairs
somewhat particularly.
[6]
I will accordingly now relate the differences that arose after the ten
years' war, the breach of the treaty, and the hostilities that followed.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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