History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Thucydides, Vol. 1-4. Smith, Charles Foster, translator. London and Cambridge, MA: Heinemann and Harvard University Press, 1919-1923.

Such were the funeral ceremonies that took place during this winter, the close of which brought the first year of this war to an end.

At the very beginning of summer the Peloponnesians and their[*](430 B.C.) allies, with two-thirds of their forces as before[*](Thuc. 2.10.2.) invaded Attica, under the command of Archidamus, son of Zeuxidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians, and establishing themselves proceeded to ravage