t.

Meanwhile Orestes, son of Echecratidas, the Thessalian king, being an
exile from Thessaly, persuaded the Athenians to restore him. Taking with
them the Boeotians and Phocians their allies, the Athenians marched to
Pharsalus in Thessaly. They became masters of the country, though only
in the immediate vicinity of the camp; beyond which they could not go
for fear of the Thessalian cavalry. But they failed to take the city
or to attain any of the other objects of their expedition, and returned
home with Orestes without having effected anything. Not long after this
a thousand of the Athenians embarked in the vessels that were at Pegae
(Pegae, it must be remembered, was now theirs), and sailed along the
coast to Sicyon under the command of Pericles, son of Xanthippus.
Landing in Sicyon and defeating the Sicyonians who engaged them, they
immediately took with them the Achaeans and, sailing across, marched
against and laid siege to Oeniadae in Acarnania. Failing however to take
it, they returned home.

Three years afterwards a truce was made between the Peloponnesians and
Athenians for five years. Released from Hellenic war, the Athenians made
an expedition to Cyprus with two hundred vessels of their own and their
allies, under the command of Cimon. Sixty of these were detached to
Egypt at the instance of Amyrtaeus, the king in the marshes; the rest
laid siege to Kitium, from which, however, they were compelled to retire
by the death of Cimon and by scarcity of provisions. Sailing off Salamis
in Cyprus, they fought with the Phoenicians, Cyprians, and Cilicians by
land and sea, and, being victorious on both elements departed home,
and with them the returned squadron from Egypt. After this the
Lacedaemonians marched out on a sacred war, and, becoming masters of the
temple at Delphi, it in the hands of the Delphians. Immediately after
their retreat, the Athenians marched out, became masters of the temple,
and placed it in the hands of the Phocians.

Some time after this, Orchomenus, Chaeronea, and some other places in
Boeotia being in the hands of the Boeotian exiles, the Athenians marched
against the above-mentioned hostile places with a thousand Athenian
heavy infantry and the allied contingents, under the command of
Tolmides, son of Tolmaeus. They took Chaeronea, and made slaves of the
inhabitants, and, leaving a garrison, commenced their return. On
their road they were attacked at Coronea by the Boeotian exiles from
Or