BOOK    V.
 

V. I.        With the return of summer the year of the truce ex- B.C. 422.
Expiration pired, but hostilities were not resumed until after the    ' ^' ^'

of the truce                                                    .

and sub-     Pythian gamcs.    During the  armistice  the Athenians

seouent

resumption rcmovcd the Dcllans from Delos; they considered them
Ses.°^^^ ^" impure and unworthy of their sacred character by reason
Second      ^f ^ certain ancient offence.    The Island had been purl-

punfication                                                                                                                        ^

of Delos. fied before, when they took the dead out of their sepul¬
chres as I have already narrated^; but this purification,
which seemed sufliclent at the time, was now thought
unsatisfactory because the inhabitants had been suffered
to remain. Pharnaces gave to the Dellans an asylum
at Adramyttlum in Asla^ and whoever chose went and
settled there.
2.          When the armistice was over, Cleon, having obtained

Cleon sails the couscnt of the people, sailed on an expedition to the
dic6, and ChalcIdlan cities with thirty ships conveying twelve
fng^at^°^^^'hundred Athenian hoplites, three hundred Athenian
Scion^       horsemen, and numerous allies.   Touching first at Scione

goes on to                                                                                                                   «=>

Toron6. (whIch was Still blockaded), and taking from thence some
hoplites of the besieging force, he sailed into the so-
called Colophonlan port, which was near the city of
Torone ; there learning from deserters that Brasidas was
not in Torone, and that the garrison was too weak to
resist, he marched with his army against the town, and
sent ten ships to sail round into the harbour. First he
a Cp. i. 8 init.; iii. 104 init.; v. 32 init.; viii. 108 med.