134 HISTORY OF GREECE. sent oat, together with the Thessalian cavalry their allies, for the purpose of restraining the excursions of the enemy's light troops, and protecting the lands near the city from plunder. 1 At the same time, he fitted out a powerful expedition, which sailed forth to ravage Peloponnesus, even while the invaders were yet in Attica. 2 Archidamus, after having remained engaged in the devastation of Acharnaa long enough to satisfy himself that the Athenians would not hazard a battle, turned away from Athens in a northwesterly direction towards the demes between Mount Brilessus and Mount Parnes, on the road passing through Deke- leia. The army continued ravaging these districts until their provisions were exhausted, and then quitted Attica by the north- western road near Oropus, which brought them into Boaotia. The Oropians were not Athenians, but dependent upon Athens, and the district of Graea, a portion of their territory, was laid waste ; after which, the army dispersed and retired back to their respective homes. 3 It would seem that they quitted Attica towards the end of July, having remained in the country between thirty and forty days. Meanwhile, the Athenian expedition under Karkinus, Proteas, and Sokrates, joined by fifty Korkyraean ships, and by some other allies, sailed round Peloponnesus, landing in various parts to inflict damage, and among other places, at Methone (Modon) on the southwestern peninsula of the Lacedaemonian territory.-* 1 Thucyd. ii, 22. The funeral monument of these slain Thessalians, was among those seen by Pausanias near Athens, on the side of the Academy (Pausan. i, 29, 5).
- Diodorus (xii, 42) would ha>e us believe, that the expedition sent out
by Perikles, ravaging the Peloponnesian coast, induced the Lacedaemonians to hurryaway their troops out of Attica. Thucydides gives no countenance to this, nor is it at all credible. 3 Thucyd. ii, 23. The reading Tpa'inr/v, belonging to Tpuia, seems pref- erable to Dtifolf^v. Poppo and Goller adopt the former, Dr. Arnold the latter. Graea was a small maritime place in the vicinity of Oropus (Aris- totel. ap. Stephan. Byz. v. Tdvaypa), known also now as an Attic deme belonging to the tribe Pandionis : this has been discovered for the first time by an inscription published in Professor Ross's work (Ueber die Demen von Attika, pp. 3-5). Oropus was not an Attic deme; the Athenian citizen! residing in it were probably enrolled as Tpafjf .
- Thncyd. ii. 25 ; Plutarch, Perikles, c. 34 ; Justin, iii, 7, 5.
