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Thucydides. Why did it have to be Thucydides?
2.7.1 And since this deed had occurred in Plataia and clearly broke the treaty, the Athenians were preparing for war, and the Lacedaimonians and their allies were also getting ready. They (both) intended to send ambassadors to the king (of Persia) and also later to the barbarians, each hoping to receive some sort of aid from from there, and were preparing to be allied with as many cities outside as possible.
2.7.2 And orders were given by the Lakedaimonians toward their colonies in Italy and Sicily to to make ships according to the size of the cities, to an entire sum of five hundred ships, and to prepare the appropriate silver, and to keep quiet about these things, receiving the Athenians one ship at a time until these had been prepared.
2.7.3 And the Athenians both reviewed the existing alliance and sent ambassadors into the districts around the greater Peloponnese--Corcyra, Cephallenia, Acarnania, and Zacynthus--seeing that if these districts would be reliable allies to them, they could make war around Peloponnese.
2.7.1 And since this deed had occurred in Plataia and clearly broke the treaty, the Athenians were preparing for war, and the Lacedaimonians and their allies were also getting ready. They (both) intended to send ambassadors to the king (of Persia) and also later to the barbarians, each hoping to receive some sort of aid from from there, and were preparing to be allied with as many cities outside as possible.
2.7.2 And orders were given by the Lakedaimonians toward their colonies in Italy and Sicily to to make ships according to the size of the cities, to an entire sum of five hundred ships, and to prepare the appropriate silver, and to keep quiet about these things, receiving the Athenians one ship at a time until these had been prepared.
2.7.3 And the Athenians both reviewed the existing alliance and sent ambassadors into the districts around the greater Peloponnese--Corcyra, Cephallenia, Acarnania, and Zacynthus--seeing that if these districts would be reliable allies to them, they could make war around Peloponnese.