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APPENDIX I. 241habitual caution and hesitancy of the Spartans in their undertakingsoutside the Peloponnese. The despatch of a Spartanto ascertain the temper of the Athenians produced nothingmore than an aphorism from the messenger.13. Notes of speeches made by Pericles in the assemblywhen the first invasion was imminent. He stated the groundsof his confidence that Athens was a match for Sparta.14-16. The Athenians, following the advice of Pericles,conveyed their goods from the country into the city. Butthe move was irksome to all those who had been brought upin the country. (Antiquarian digression on early Attica.)18-23. Opening of the campaign of 431 B.C. The firstinvasion of Attica was desultory and ill-planned. Archidamusdelayed at Oenoe in the hope that Athens would be terrifiedinto submission by the great numbers of his army. But theAthenians were more discontented with Pericles than afraidof Archidamus. The king, being repulsed in an attempt onOenoe, made his way to Acharnae, where he again tarried,hoping to entice the enemy out to battle. And the enemywould have been enticed to battle had not Pericles persistentlywithstood their clamour. He only sent out a squadron or twoof horse to protect the country in the immediate neighbourhoodof the city.23-36. But, in the meanwhile, Carcinas and Proteas andSocrates sailed from Piraeus with a fleet of one hundred sail,and made descents on the coasts of the Peloponnese. Anattack on Methone was repulsed by Brasidas. SimultaneouslyCleopompos, in command of a fleet of thirty ships, made asuccessful expedition to the coast of the Opuntian Locrians.When Archidamus had left Attica, the Athenians formed areserve fund of one thousand talents and a reserve fleet of onehundred vessels.37. In the same summer the Athenians appropriatedAegina.38. On the 3rd of August there was an eclipse of the sun,which was considered remarkable by those who did not kuowAnaxagoras.30. Formation of an alliance between Athens and Sitalces ofThrace, and reconciliation of Athens and Perdiccas of Macedon.Sitalces promised to aid the Athenians in the reduction ofChalcidice.30-31. After their failure at Methone, Carcinus and hiscolleagues made a highly successful expedition to Acarnaniaand Cephallenia. They expelled Euarchus, tyrant of Astacus,and gained Cephallenia for Athens.On the homeward voyage.