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Have you missed Thucydides? Because I haven't. Especially since I'm currently on a section that's full of absurdly long sentences in which things of only very minor interest happen. I'm looking forward to some actual battles taking place.
2.13.1 Yet when the Peloponnesians had come together in the isthmus and were on the road, before they attacked Attica, Pericles son of Xanthippus, the tenth general of the Athenians, as he knew the invasion was coming, suspected that Archidamos (who happened to be a friend of his) might possibly leave aside his fields and not destroy them. This would be either to help him as he wished, or on being ordered by the Spartans, to thereby attach suspicion to Pericles, just as also they said before to drive away the polluted ones on account of that. So he told to the Athenians in the assembly beforehand that Archidamos was his friend; however this had not yet become an evil to the city, and in case his fields and houses were not destroyed by the war like those of everyone else, he gave them to the city, so that they wouldn't accordingly bring suspicion on him.
2.13.2 And he advised those present as he had before: both to prepare for the war and to carry in things from the fields, and to not take the battle out against the enemy, but to guard against them entering the city; to prepare the navy, which was strong; and to hold these things through control of their allies; he was saying that their strength was from money coming in from those allies, and many successes in war came about through policy and an abundance of money.
2.13.3 He urged those present to be brave, since 600 talents as yet were carried to the city every year from allies of the city, aside from other things; and of coined silver in the acropolis there were 6,000 talents; for most of the 9,700 were still there, out of which the acropolis's gate, and other buildings, and things for Potidaea had been funded.
2.13.4 And aside from that, the uncoined gold and silver in the private and public offerings, and as many holy vessels for the ceremonies and games, and the Medikan spoils, and other such things, amounted to no less than five hundred talents.
...and that's only half the section, but it was brutal enough that I'm saving the other half for later.
2.13.1 Yet when the Peloponnesians had come together in the isthmus and were on the road, before they attacked Attica, Pericles son of Xanthippus, the tenth general of the Athenians, as he knew the invasion was coming, suspected that Archidamos (who happened to be a friend of his) might possibly leave aside his fields and not destroy them. This would be either to help him as he wished, or on being ordered by the Spartans, to thereby attach suspicion to Pericles, just as also they said before to drive away the polluted ones on account of that. So he told to the Athenians in the assembly beforehand that Archidamos was his friend; however this had not yet become an evil to the city, and in case his fields and houses were not destroyed by the war like those of everyone else, he gave them to the city, so that they wouldn't accordingly bring suspicion on him.
2.13.2 And he advised those present as he had before: both to prepare for the war and to carry in things from the fields, and to not take the battle out against the enemy, but to guard against them entering the city; to prepare the navy, which was strong; and to hold these things through control of their allies; he was saying that their strength was from money coming in from those allies, and many successes in war came about through policy and an abundance of money.
2.13.3 He urged those present to be brave, since 600 talents as yet were carried to the city every year from allies of the city, aside from other things; and of coined silver in the acropolis there were 6,000 talents; for most of the 9,700 were still there, out of which the acropolis's gate, and other buildings, and things for Potidaea had been funded.
2.13.4 And aside from that, the uncoined gold and silver in the private and public offerings, and as many holy vessels for the ceremonies and games, and the Medikan spoils, and other such things, amounted to no less than five hundred talents.
...and that's only half the section, but it was brutal enough that I'm saving the other half for later.