they felt keenly that such a slight ought not to have been
B.C. 463-461
Ol. 79, 2-79, 4.
offered them by the Lacedaemonians; and so, on their
return home, they forthwith abandoned the alliance which
they had made with them against the Persians and went
over to their Argive enemies. At the same time both
Argos and Athens bound themselves to Thessaly by
a common oath of alliance.
103
B.C. 455.
Ol 81, 2.
[? B.C. 461.
Ol 79,4.]
In the[1] tenth year of the siege the defenders of Ithomè
Fall of Ithone. The Athenians settle the exiled Messemans at Naupactus.
were unable to hold out any longer,
and capitulated to the Lacedaemonians.
The terms were as follows : They were
to leave reloponnesus under a safe-conduct, and were never again to return ; if any of them
were taken on Peloponnesian soil, he was to be the slave
of his captor. Now an ancient oracle of Delphi was
current among the Lacedaemonians, bidding them let the
suppliant of Ithomaean Zeus go free. So the Messenians
left Ithome with their wives and children ; and the
Athenians, who were now the avowed enemies of Sparta,
gave them a home at Naupactus, a place which they had
lately taken from the Ozolian Locrians.
B.C. 461-460.
Ol. 79, 4-80.
The Athenians obtained the alliance of the Megarians,
who revolted from the Lacedaemonians
Athens gains the alliance of Megara, as well as of Argos and Thessaly.
because the Corinthians were pressing
them hard in a war arising out of
a question of frontiers. Thus they
gained both Megara and Pegae ; and they built for the
Megarians the long walls, extending from the city to the
port of Nisaea, which they garrisoned themselves. This
was the original and the main cause of the intense hatred
which the Corinthians entertained towards the Athenians.
104
B.C. 460
Ol. 80.
Meanwhile Inaros the son of Psammetichus, king of the
Egyptian revolt.
- ↑ Or, accepting (
Greek characters) (Kr{{subst:u:}}ger's conj.), 'the fourth year.'
