Kitap 5
1.1
The next summer the one-year's truce con-422 B.C. tinued till, and ended with, the Pythian games.The truce had really expired, according to 4.118.12, the 14th of the Attic month Elaphebolion (about the end of March), but hostilities were not renewed till after the Pythian games, which were celebrated in the Attic month Metageitnion (latter half of August and first of September). This seems the most natural interpretation of Thucydides' language, but many editors render “The next summer the one-year's truce was ended and war was renewed till the Pythian games.” During the suspension of arms the Athenians expelled the Delians from Delos, thinking that they had been consecratedReferring to their purification and consecration to Apollo four years before (iii. 107). while in a state of pollution from some ancient crime, and besides, that they themselves had been responsible for this defect in the purification, in which, as I have before related, they believed they had acted rightly in removing the coffins of the dead. And the Delians settled, according as each man chose,Or, “was inclined” (etc. οἰκῆσαι). in Atramytteum in Asia, which had been given them by Pharnaces.
2.1
After the armistice had expired Cleon persuaded the Athenians to let him sail to the cities in Thrace, with twelve hundred Athenian hoplites and three hundred cavalry, and a larger force of the allies, and thirty ships.
2.2
And touching first at Scione, which was still under siege, and taking on from there some hoplites of the garrison, he then sailed down to the port of Cophus, which is not far distant from the city of Torone.
2.3
From there, on learning from deserters that Brasidas was not in Torone and that the inhabitants were not a match for him in battle, he advanced with his land-force against the city, but sent ten ships to sail round into the harbour.
