By Thucydides
The ebook used to be written through Thucydides, an Athenian historian who additionally occurred to function an Athenian basic in the course of the struggle. His account of the clash is greatly thought of to be a vintage, and is thought of as one of many earliest scholarly works of history.
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the heritage of the warfare among the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, starting for the time being that it broke out, and believing that it might be a very good conflict and extra valuable of relation than any that had preceded it. This trust was once now not with no its grounds. The arrangements of either the warring parties have been in each division within the final country of perfection and he may perhaps see the remainder of the Hellenic race taking aspects within the quarrel those that behind schedule doing so right now having it in contemplation.
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But this was a distant enemy. Well, Athens at all events is a near neighbour, and yet Athens you utterly disregard; against Athens you prefer to act on the defensive instead of on the offensive, and to make it an affair of chances by deferring the struggle till she has grown far stronger than at first. And yet you know that on the whole the rock on which the barbarian was wrecked was himself, and that if our present enemy Athens has not again and again annihilated us, we owe it more to her blunders than to your protection; Indeed, expectations from you have before now been the ruin of some, whose faith induced them to omit preparation.
Taking with them the Boeotians and Phocians their allies, the Athenians marched to Pharsalus in Thessaly. Failing however to take it, they returned home. After this the Lacedaemonians marched out on a sacred war, and, becoming masters of the temple at Delphi, it in the hands of the Delphians. Immediately after their retreat, the Athenians marched out, became masters of the temple, and placed it in the hands of the Phocians. They took Chaeronea, and made slaves of the inhabitants, and, leaving a garrison, commenced their return.
They then felt that they could endure it no longer, but that the time had come for them to throw themselves heart and soul upon the hostile power, and break it, if they could, by commencing the present war. And though the Lacedaemonians had made up their own minds on the fact of the breach of the treaty and the guilt of the Athenians, yet they sent to Delphi and inquired of the God whether it would be well with them if they went to war; and, as it is reported, received from him the answer that if they put their whole strength into the war, victory would be theirs, and the promise that he himself would be with them, whether invoked or uninvoked.