[565] Thucyd. iv, 41: compare Aristophan. Equit. 648 with Schol.
[566] Thucyd. iv, 79.
[567] Thucyd. v, 16.
[568] The Acharneis was performed at the festival of the Lenæa, at Athens, January, 425 B.C.: the Knights, at the same festival in the ensuing year, 424 B.C.
The capture of Sphakteria took place about July, B.C. 425: between the two dates above. See Mr. Clinton’s Fasti Hellenici, ad ann.
[569] Thucyd. iv, 117; v, 14.
[570] Thucyd. iv, 42. Τοῦ δ᾽ αὐτοῦ θέρους μετὰ ταῦτα εὐθὺς, etc.
[571] See the geographical illustrations of this descent in Dr. Arnold’s plan and note appended to the second volume of his Thucydidês,—and in Colonel Leake, Travels in Morea, ch. xxviii, p. 235; xxix, p. 309.
[572] Thucyd. iv, 43.
[573] Thucyd. iv, 44. ἔθεντο τὰ ὅπλα,—an expression which Dr. Arnold explains, here as elsewhere, to mean “piling the arms:” I do not think such an explanation is correct, even here: much less in several other places to which he alludes. See on the surprise of Platæa by the Thebans, immediately before the Peloponnesian war.