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84.
The next summer Alcibiades sailed with twenty
ships to Argos and seized the suspected persons still left of the
Lacedaemonian faction to the number of three hundred, whom the Athenians
forthwith lodged in the neighboring islands of their empire.
The Athenians also made an expedition against the isle of Melos with thirty
ships of their own, six Chian, and two Lesbian vessels, sixteen hundred
heavy infantry, three hundred archers, and twenty mounted archers from
Athens, and about fifteen hundred heavy infantry from the allies and the
islanders.
[2]
The Melians are a colony of Lacedaemon that would not submit to the
Athenians like the other islanders, and at first remained neutral and took
no part in the struggle, but afterwards upon the Athenians using violence
and plundering their territory, assumed an attitude of open hostility.
[3]
Cleomedes, son of Lycomedes, and Tisias, son of Tisimachus, the generals,
encamping in their territory with the above armament, before doing any harm
to their land, sent envoys to negotiate.
These the Melians did not bring before the people, but bade them state the
object of their mission to the magistrates and the few; upon which the Athenian envoys spoke as follows:—
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, KIMOLOS Cyclades, Greece.
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