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affairs afterwards Alcibiades alliance allies ambassadors Ambraciots amongst Amphipolis Argives Argos arms army arrived Athe Athenians Athens attack Attica Baotians Barbarians battle body Boeotians Brasidas carried Chalcideans Chians Chios Cleon coast command confederates Corcyra Corcyreans Corinthians danger declared Demosthenes despatched Eleans embassy endeavour enemy engagement Euboea expedition farther favour fleet foes force former give Grecians Greece guard Gylippus harbour hath heavy-armed honour hundred island joined judged king Lacedæ Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land liberty manner Mantineans Medes Megara Megareans ment Miletus monians Naupactus naval never nians Nicias occasion party peace Peloponnesians Peloponnesus Perdiccas Pericles person Piræus Plateans Potidea present Pylus ready rest revolt sail Samos sent ships Sicilian Sicily side soon Sparta squadron stood strength succour Syracusans Syracuse Thebans thence things thither Thrace Thucydides tion Tissaphernes treaty triremes truce vessels victory wall whilst whole