Excerpt from The Fifth Book of Thucydides: Edited With Notes The fifth Book begins with the expiration of this truce, when an expedition was made, urged by Cleon, in the hope of regaining Athenian ascendancy in Thrace. Exhausted as she must have been, Athens was able to despatch a strong force of chosen citizens, with the flower of the allies. But being, from party-intrigue or whatever cause, under the sole conduct of Cleon, the army was fore doomed to ruin. It did indeed recapture Torone, but was Shattered and dispersed in the fatal battle of Amphipolis. These events occupy the first thirteen chapters of the Book, and with them concludes the first period of the war. So far, or some few chapters further, the history seems to have been completed, and to have received its final revi sion, after the Peloponnesian war was over. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.