History of the Peloponnesian War

The next day the Argives, on learning this, razed Orneae to the ground and withdrew, and later the Athenians also went home with their ships. The Athenians also conveyed by sea some of their own cavalry and the Macedonian exiles that were with them to Methone, which borders on Macedonia, and ravaged the country of Perdiccas.

And the Lacedaemonians sent to the Chalcidians in Thrace, who were observing a truce renewable every ten days with the Athenians, and urged them to join Perdiccas in the war; but they were unwilling. So the winter ended, and with it the sixteenth year of this war of which Thucydides wrote the history.

The next year at the opening of spring the[*](March 415 B.C.) Athenian envoys returned from Sicily, and with them the Egestaeans, bringing sixty talents[*](£12,000, $57,360.) of uncoined silver as a month's pay for sixty ships, which they were to ask the