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erxes to the necessity of concluding a
treaty highly honourable to the Greeks.
Cimon's death
Sect. X. Thucydides is opposed to Pericles. The
envy raised against the latter. He
clears himself, and prevails to have
Thucydides banished.
XI. Pericles changes his conduct with re-
gard to the people. His prodigious
authority. His disinteresteaness
XII. Jealousy and contests arise between
the Athenians and Lacedæmonians. A
treaty of peace is concluded for thirty
years
XIII. New subjects of contention between
the two nations, occasioned by the
Athenians laying siege to Samos; by
their succouring the people of Corcyra,
and besieging Potidæa. An open rup-
ture ensues
XIV. Troubles excited against Pericles. He
determines the Athenians to engage
in war against the Lacedaemonians
CHAPTER II.
Transactions of the Greeks in Sicily and Italy
Sect. I. The Carthaginians are defeated in Si-
cily. Theron, tyrant of Agrigentum.
Reign of Gelon in Syracuse, and his
two brothers. Liberty is restored
II. Of some famous persons and citizens in
Græcia major. Pythagoras, Cha-
rondas, Zaleucus, Milo the Athleta:
Croton, Sybaris, and Thurium
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ib.
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CHAPTER III.
The war of Peloponnesus
Sect. I. The siege of Platea by the Theban. Alternate ravages of Attica and Pe- loponnesus. Honours paid to the Athe- nians who fell in the first campaign
II. The plague makes dreadful havock in
Atica. Pericles is divested of the
command. The Lacedæmonians ad-
dress the Persians for aid. Potidea
is taken by the Athenians. Pericles
is restored to his employment. His
death, and that of Anaxagoras
III. The Lacedæmonians besiege Plataa.
Mitylene is taken by the Athenians.
Plataa surrenders. The plague
breaks out again in Athens
IV. The Athenians possess themselves of
Pylus, and are afterwards besieged
in it. The Spartans are shut up in
the little island of Sphacteria. Cleon
makes himself master of it. Artax-
erxes dies
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BOOK VIII.
CHAPTER I.
Sect. I. The very short reigns of Xerxes II. and
Sogdianus. They are succeeded by
Darius Nothus. He puts a stop to
the insurrection of Egypt and that
of Media. He bestows on Cyrus, his
youngest son, the supreme command of
all Asia minor
II. The Athenians make themselves mas-
ters of the island of Cythera. Expedi-
tions of Brasidas into Thrace. He
takes Amphipolis. Thucydides the
historian is banished. A battle is
fought near Delium, where the Athe-
nians are defeated
III. A twelve-month's truce is agreed upon
between the two states. Cleon and
Brasidas die. A treaty of peace for
fifty years concluded between the Athe-
nians and Lacedæmonians
IV. Alcibiades begins to appear. His cha-
racter. He opposes Nicias in every
thing, and breaks the treaty he had
concluded. The banishment of Hyper-
bolus puts an end to the Ostracism
V. Alcibiades engages the Athenians in the
war of Sicily
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Sect. VI. Account of the several people who in- habited Sicily
but
VII. The people of Egesta implore aid of
the Athenians. Nicias opposes,
to no purpose, the war of Sicily Al- cibiades carries that point. They both
are appointed generals with Lama-
chus
VIII. The Athenians prepare to set sail. Sinister omens! The statues of Mer-
Alcibiades is
cury are mutilated.
accused, and insists upon his being
tried, but his request is not grant-
ed. Triumphant departure of the
fleet
IX. Syracuse is alarmed. The Athenian
fleet arrives in Sicily
X. Alcibiades is recalled. He flies, and is sentenced to die as an outlaw. He
retires to Sparta. Flexibility of his
genius and disposition
XI. Description of Syracuse
XII. Nicias, after some engagements, be-
sieges Syracuse. Lamachus is killed
in a battle. The city is reduced to the
greatest extremities
XIII. The Syracusans resolve to capitulate,
but Gylippus's arrival changes the face
of affairs. Nicias is forced by his
colleagues to engage in a sea-fight,
and is overcome. His land-forces are
also defeated
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Sect. XIV. The consternation with which the Athe-
nians are seized. They again hazard
a sea-fight, and are defeated. They
resolve to retire by land. Being close
pursued by the Syracusans, they sur-
render. Nicias and Demosthenes are
sentenced to die, and executed. The
effect which the news of the defeat of
the army produces in Athens
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Sect. I. Consequences of the defeat of the Athe-
nians in Sicily. Revolt of the allies.
Alcibiades grows into great power with Tissaphernes
II. The return of Alcibiades to Athens ne-
gociated upon condition of establishing
the aristocratical, in the room of the
democratical government. Tissaphernes
concludes a new treaty with the Lace-
damonians
III. The whole authority of the Athenian
government having been vested in four
hundred persons, they abuse it tyran- `
nically, and are deposed. Alcibiades
is recalled. After various accidents,
and several considerable victories, he
returns in triumph to Athens, and is
appointed generalissimo. He causes
the great mysteries to be celebrated,
and departs with the fleet
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