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Thucydides. Oh god, why do I do this to myself? I swear next summer I'm going to pick something nice and easy like Lysias or a dramatist. Or at least something I have good notes for. At least this section was relatively easy.
2.12.1 When he'd said such things and broken up the assembly, Archidemos first sent the Spartan man Melesippos, son of Diakritos, into Athens, to see if the Athenians would more likely give in about anything, on seeing they were already on the march.
2.12.2 But they did not receive him in the city, nor in their assembly; for Perikleos's existing decision was to not accept a herald or ambassador of the Spartan once they'd started out; therefore they sent him off before they heard him and commanded him to be outside their territory on that very day, and anyone wishing to send an ambassador should retreat into their own territory. And they sent guides with Melesippos, so that nobody would speak with him.
2.12.3 And when he reached the boundaries and was about to leave them, he made so great a speech: "This day is the beginning of great evils for the Greeks."
2.12.4 And when he arrived in the camp, and Archidemos discovered that the Athenians would give in on nothing whatsoever, on this account he led the army out and moved into their land.
2.12.5 And the Boeotians sent over their own share of infantry and the cavalry to join the Peloponnesians, going with the rest to ravage the land in Plataia.
2.12.1 When he'd said such things and broken up the assembly, Archidemos first sent the Spartan man Melesippos, son of Diakritos, into Athens, to see if the Athenians would more likely give in about anything, on seeing they were already on the march.
2.12.2 But they did not receive him in the city, nor in their assembly; for Perikleos's existing decision was to not accept a herald or ambassador of the Spartan once they'd started out; therefore they sent him off before they heard him and commanded him to be outside their territory on that very day, and anyone wishing to send an ambassador should retreat into their own territory. And they sent guides with Melesippos, so that nobody would speak with him.
2.12.3 And when he reached the boundaries and was about to leave them, he made so great a speech: "This day is the beginning of great evils for the Greeks."
2.12.4 And when he arrived in the camp, and Archidemos discovered that the Athenians would give in on nothing whatsoever, on this account he led the army out and moved into their land.
2.12.5 And the Boeotians sent over their own share of infantry and the cavalry to join the Peloponnesians, going with the rest to ravage the land in Plataia.