events of this summer
after the return of the Peloponnesians from Attica.

In the ensuing winter the Acarnanian Evarchus, wishing to return to
Astacus, persuaded the Corinthians to sail over with forty ships and
fifteen hundred heavy infantry and restore him; himself also hiring
some mercenaries. In command of the force were Euphamidas, son of
Aristonymus, Timoxenus, son of Timocrates, and Eumachus, son of Chrysis,
who sailed over and restored him and, after failing in an attempt on
some places on the Acarnanian coast which they were desirous of
gaining, began their voyage home. Coasting along shore they touched at
Cephallenia and made a descent on the Cranian territory, and losing some
men by the treachery of the Cranians, who fell suddenly upon them after
having agreed to treat, put to sea somewhat hurriedly and returned home.

In the same winter the Athenians gave a funeral at the public cost
to those who had first fallen in this war. It was a custom of their
ancestors, and the manner of it is as follows. Three days before the
ceremony, the bones of the dead are laid out in a tent which has been
erected; and their friends bring to their relatives such offerings as
they please. In the funeral procession cypress coffins are borne in
cars, one for each tribe; the bones of the deceased being placed in the
coffin of their tribe. Among these is carried one empty bier decked for
the missing, that is, for those whose bodies could not be recovered. Any
citizen or stranger who pleases, joins in the procession: and the female
relatives are there to wail at the burial. The dead are laid in the
public sepulchre in the Beautiful suburb of the city, in which those
who fall in war are always buried; with the exception of those slain at
Marathon, who for their singular and extraordinary valour were interred
on the spot where they fell. After the bodies have been laid in the
earth, a man chosen by the state, of approved wisdom and eminent
reputation, pronounces over them an appropriate panegyric; after which
all retire. Such is the manner of the burying; and throughout the whole
of the war, whenever the occasion arose, the established custom was
observed. Meanwhile these were the first that had fallen, and Pericles,
son of Xanthippus, was chosen to pronounce their eulogium. When the
proper time arrived, he advanced from the sepulchre to an elevated
platform in order to be heard by as many of the crowd as possible, and
spoke as follow