and infatuation just now in the ascendant,
and of his wisdom in refusing a sally, would not call either assembly or
meeting of the people, fearing the fatal results of a debate inspired
by passion and not by prudence. Accordingly he addressed himself to
the defence of the city, and kept it as quiet as possible, though he
constantly sent out cavalry to prevent raids on the lands near the city
from flying parties of the enemy. There was a trifling affair at Phrygia
between a squadron of the Athenian horse with the Thessalians and the
Boeotian cavalry; in which the former had rather the best of it, until
the heavy infantry advanced to the support of the Boeotians, when the
Thessalians and Athenians were routed and lost a few men, whose bodies,
however, were recovered the same day without a truce. The next day the
Peloponnesians set up a trophy. Ancient alliance brought the Thessalians
to the aid of Athens; those who came being the Larisaeans, Pharsalians,
Cranonians, Pyrasians, Gyrtonians, and Pheraeans. The Larisaean
commanders were Polymedes and Aristonus, two party leaders in Larisa;
the Pharsalian general was Menon; each of the other cities had also its
own commander.

In the meantime the Peloponnesians, as the Athenians did not come out
to engage them, broke up from Acharnae and ravaged some of the demes
between Mount Parnes and Brilessus. While they were in Attica the
Athenians sent off the hundred ships which they had been preparing round
Peloponnese, with a thousand heavy infantry and four hundred archers on
board, under the command of Carcinus, son of Xenotimus, Proteas, son of
Epicles, and Socrates, son of Antigenes. This armament weighed anchor
and started on its cruise, and the Peloponnesians, after remaining in
Attica as long as their provisions lasted, retired through Boeotia by a
different road to that by which they had entered. As they passed Oropus
they ravaged the territory of Graea, which is held by the Oropians from
Athens, and reaching Peloponnese broke up to their respective cities.

After they had retired the Athenians set guards by land and sea at the
points at which they intended to have regular stations during the war.
They also resolved to set apart a special fund of a thousand talents
from the moneys in the Acropolis. This was not to be spent, but the
current expenses of the war were to be otherwise provided for. If any
one should move or put to the vote a proposition for using the money for
an