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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOtTNDED BY JAMES LOEB, LL.D.

EDITED BY |T. E. PAGE,

CAPPS, POST,

m.a.

E. H.

C.H., LITT.D.

tW. H.

ph.d., ll.d.

D.

WARMINGTON,

THUCYDIDES I

ROUSE,

m.a.,

litt.d.

f.r.hist.soc.

PORTRAIT OF PERIKLES. BRITISH MUSEUM.

THUCYDIDES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

CHARLES FORSTER SMITH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

IN

FOUR VOLUMES I

HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN BOOKS I and II

WAR

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMLVI

First printed 1919 Revised and Reprinted 1928 Reprinted 1935, 1951, 1956

6523feb

Prinied in Great Britain

CONTENTS PAOJt

PORTRAIT OF PERICLES

Frontispiece

INTRODUCTION

vii

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Xxi

BOOK

I

BOOK

II

1

257

MAPS CORCYRA AND NORTH-WESTERN HELLAS CHALCIDICE

PIRAEUS

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.

.

to

face

,

43 95 157

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graphical details which they contain, wherever they

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