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31.
Towards the autumn of this year the Athenians invaded the Megarid with
their whole levy, resident aliens included, under the command of Pericles,
son of Xanthippus.
The Athenians in the hundred ships round Peloponnese on their journey home
had just reached Aegina, and hearing that the citizens at home were in full
force at Megara, now sailed over and joined them.
[2]
This was without doubt the largest army of Athenians ever assembled, the
state being still in the flower of her strength and yet unvisited by the
plague.
Full ten thousand heavy infantry were in the field, all Athenian citizens,
besides the three thousand before Potidaea.
Then the resident aliens who joined in the incursion were at least three
thousand strong; besides which there was a multitude of light troops.
They ravaged the greater part of the territory, and then retired.
[3]
Other incursions into the Megarid were afterwards made by the Athenians
annually during the war, sometimes only with cavalry, sometimes with all
their forces.
This went on until the capture of Nisaea.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.1
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