BOOK    III.
 

B.C. 428.        In tiie following summer, when the corn was in full  III.  i.

Uli 88.

ear, the Peloponnesians and their allies, under the com- Third in-

^ .                                                                                                  vasion of

mand of Archidamus, the son of Zeuxidamus, the Lace- Attica by
daemonlan king, invaded Attica, and encamping wasted ponnesians.
the country. The Athenian cavalry as usual attacked
them whenever an opportunity offered, and prevented
the great body of the light-armed troops from going
beyond their lines and injuring the lands near the city.
The Invaders remained until their supplies were ex¬
hausted ; they were then disbanded, and returned to
their several homes.

No sooner had the Peloponnesians quitted Attica than       2.
the whole people of Lesbos, with the exception of the ^he Les-

bians, with

Methymnaeans, revolted from Athens. They had enter- the excep-
tained the design before the war began, but the Lace- Methym-^
daemonians gave them no encouragement. And now r^voi^^b^t
they were not ready, and were compelled to revolt sooner sooner than

-^                        .         "^                                   ^                                                 they had in-

than they had Intended.   For they were waiting until they tended, in-
had completed the work of closing their harbours, raising their pians°
walls,  and  building  ships,  and  they  had   not  as  yet ^^JJ^^I ^^^^
received from Pontus the force of archers, the corn and Athens from

1-       r          1      1                                                                     Tenedos,

the other supplies for which they had sent.    But the in- Methymna,
habitants of Tenedos, who were not on good terms with lene itself.
them, and the  Methymnaeans, and individual citizens
who were of the opposite faction and were proxeni of
Athens, turned Informers and told the Athenians that
the MItylenaeans were forcing the other inhabitants of