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 HISTORY OF GREECE. But though the actions of Athens remained unaltered, the talk at Athens became very different. Kleon and his supporters OKovfial 6i%.?.vvTo fi.ex.pi. T ^ v Tlvdiuv Kal kv TTJ A7/Uoif aviarrjaav kx A^Aoti; again, v, 2. KAewv 6e t; if TU im QpaKrjf x^P ia l&'x'kEvae (J.ETU TJJV iKsxeiplav, etc. Thticydides says here, that "the truce was dissolved:" the bond imposed upon both parties was untied, and both resumed their natural liberty. But he does not say that " hostilities recommenced " before the Pythia, as Goller and other critics affirm that he says. The interval between the 14th of the month Elaphebolion and the Pythian festival was one in which there was no binding truce any longer in force, and yet no actual hostilities : it was an uvaKuxn uGTtovSos, to use the words of Thucydides, when he describes the relations between Corinth and Athens in the ensuing year (v, 32). The word &c-pa here means, in my judgment, the trace proclaimed at the season of the Pythian festival, quite distinct from the truce for one year which had expired a little while before. The change of the word in the course of one line from cirovdal to iKexeip'ia marks this distinction. I agree with Dr. Arnold, dissenting both from M. Boeckh and from Mi- Clinton, in his conception of the events of this year. Kleon sailed on his expedition to Thrace after the Pythian holy truce, in the beginning of August : between that date and the end of September, happened the capture of Torone 1 and the battle of Amphipolis. But the way in which Dr. Arnold defends his opinion is not at all satisfactory. In the Disserta- tion appended to his second volume of Thucydides (p. 458), he says : " The words in Thucydides ai kviaiiaioi airovdai die2.c2i.vvTo fiixP 1 - Tlv&iuv, mean, as I understand them, ' that the truce for a year had lasted on till the Pythian games, and then ended:' that is, instead of expiring on the 14th of Elaphebolion, it had been tacitly continued nearly four months longer, till after midsummer : and it was not till the middle of Hccatombaeon that Cleon was sent out to recover Amphipolis." Such a construction of the word Siel^kwro appears to me inadmissible, nor is Dr. Arnold's defence of it, p. 454, of much value : an-ovJaf diahveiv is an expression well known to Thucydides (iv, 23 ; v, 36), " to dissolve the truce." I go along with Boeckh and Mr. Clinton in construing the words, except that I strike out what they introduce from their own imagi- nation. They say : " The trace was ended, and the war again renewed, up to the time of the Pythian games." Thucydides only says " that the truce was dissolved ; " he does not say " that the war was renewed." It is not at all ncce:;sary to Dr. Arnold's conception of the facts that the words should bo translated as he proposes. His remarks also (p. 460) upon th relation ( f the Athenians to the Pythian games, appear to me just : but ha does not advert to the fact, which would have strengthened materially what he tht re says, that the Athenians had been excluded from Delphi Mid froir Ji< Pythian festival between the commencement of the war and