Excerpt from The Peace of Aristophanes IN the spring of the year 421 all Greece was weary of the Peloponnesian war, which had now lasted ten years. And many reasons made both' Athens and Sparta desirous of peace, for which there seemed a fair opening Without discredit to either side. 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.