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93 95] ARGIVES AND LACEDAEMONIANS 253 At the very beginning of the following spring the 94 Athenians quitted Catana, and sailed _,^ ^. . .^, ^C. 414. ^ o- •!• Operations o/Athen- 0. gx, z- along the coast towards the Sicilian j„,^s ,„ (i,g eastern Mcgara; this place, as I have already district of Sicily. Ar- nientioned' in the days of Gelo the '""'^ of horsemen nnd ' 110 money from Athens. tyrant was depopulated by the Syra- cusans, who still retain possession of the country. They disembarked, and after ravaging the fields proceeded to attack a small Syracusan fortress, but without success; they then moved on some by land and some by sea to the river Terias, and going up the country wasted the plain and burned the corn. They encountered a few Syra- cusans, some of whom they killed, and setting up a trophy returned to their ships. They then sailed back to Catana, and having taken in provisions marched with their whole force against Centoripa, a Sicel town, which capitulated. Thence they returned, and on their way burned the corn of the Inessians and the Hyblaeans. Arriving at Catana they found that the horsemen, for whom they had sent, to the number of two hundred and fifty had come from Athens, with their equipments, but without horses, which they were expected to procure on the spot. Thirty mounted archers and three hundred talents of silver ^ had arrived also. During the same spring the Lacedaemonians led an 95 army against Argos, and advanced as A Lacedaemonian far as Cleonae, but retired in conse- '"^csion of Argolis - , 1 T-i A • stopped by an earth- quence of an earthquake. The Argives q.'Jk,, Argives invade in their turn invaded the neighbouring rhyrca. Rising at district of Thyrea, and took a great Thespiae. deal of spoil from the Lacedaemonians, which was sold for no less than twenty-five talents d. Somewhat later the populace of Thespiae ^ made an attack upon the govern- ment, but the attempt did not succeed ; for the Thebans " Cp. vi. 4 init. •* Cp. vi. 75 init. ^^60 000 <* yCs.ooo. « Cp. iv. 133 init.