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 BOOK V B.C. 422. I With the return of summer the year of the trtice ■ ^' ^* ,. . ,., , expired, but hostilitieswere not resumed L.xpiralwn of the •! r n i • in,ce and subscqucut ""^il alter the Pythian games. During lesuniption of hostilities, the amiistice the Athenians removed Secomi purification of ^j^^ Delians from Delos ; they con- Delos. -Ill • sidered them impure and unworthy of their sacred character by reason of a certain ancient offence. The island had been purified before, when they took up the coffms of the dead as I have already narrated ^ ; but this purification, which seemed sufficient at the time, was now thought unsatisfactory because the inhabitants had been suffered to remain. Pharnaces gave to the Delians an asylum at Adramyttium in Asia, and whoever chose went and settled there. 2 When the armistice was over, Cleon, having obtained aconsaihtoChaldd. ^'^^ Consent of the people, sailed on an ice, and after touching expedition to the Chalcidian cities with at Scionc goes on to thirty ships Conveying twelve hundred Athenian hoplites, three hundred Athen- ian horsemen, and numerous allies. Touching first at Scione (which was still blockaded and taking from thence some hoplites of the besieging force, he sailed into the so-called Colophonian port, which was near the city of Torone ; there learning from deserters that Brasidas was not in Torone, and that the garrison was too weak to Cp. i. 8 init. ; iii. 104 init. ; v. 32 init. ; viii. 108 med.