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43.
The breach between the Lacedaemonians and
Athenians having gone thus far, the party at Athens, also, who wished to
cancel the treaty, immediately put themselves in motion.
[2]
Foremost amongst these was Alcibiades, son of Clinias, a man yet young in
years for any other Hellenic city, but distinguished by the splendor of his
ancestry.
Alcibiades thought the Argive alliance really preferable, not that personal
pique had not also a great deal to do with his opposition; he being offended with the Lacedaemonians for having negotiated the treaty
through Nicias and Laches, and having overlooked him on account of his
youth, and also for not having shown him the respect due to the ancient
connection of his family with them as their Proxeni, which, renounced by his
grandfather, he had lately himself thought to renew by his attentions to
their prisoners taken in the island.
[3]
Being thus, as he thought, slighted on all hands, he had in the first
instance spoken against the treaty, saying that the Lacedaemonians were not
to be trusted, but that they only treated, in order to be enabled by this
means to crush Argos, and afterwards to attack Athens alone; and now, immediately upon the above breach occurring, he sent privately to
the Argives, telling them to come as quickly as possible to Athens,
accompanied by the Mantineans and Eleans, with proposals of alliance; as the moment was propitious and he himself would do all he could to help
them.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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