staeans really had the money of which the
messengers had brought information to Athens.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 28: From Book VI of "The History of the Peloponnesian War."
Translated by Benjamin Jowett. At the time of the sailing of this
fleet the war had been in progress sixteen years. Syracuse, a Greek
colony, founded from Corinth, had now become an ally of Sparta against
Athens.]

[Footnote 29: Iapygia lies in what is now Apulia, southern Italy. It
is the extreme southern point of the "heel" of the "boot."]

[Footnote 30: An island in the Saronic Gulf, lying immediately south
of Attica; in an artistic and historical sense, one of the most
celebrated of Greek islands.]

[Footnote 31: One of the three generals of Syracuse entrusted with the
defense of the city. His character was "one of the brightest and
purest" in the history of that place, says a writer in Smith's
"Dictionary." His daughter married the tyrant Dionysius.]

[Footnote 32: The modern Taranto, in southern Italy, in the gulf of
that name.]

[Footnote 33: The city of Locri lay near Gerace, a town in the
extremity of the "toe" of the "boot." It was allied with Syracuse in
the fourth century.]

[Footnote 34: The modern Reggio, which lies opposite Messina, and
which, like Messina, was destroyed in the earthquake of 1908.]

[Footnote 35: Also written Segesta, a city in northwestern Sicily, six
miles from the coast and about twenty-five miles west of Palermo. The
modern city of Aleamo stands near its site. Segesta traced its
foundation to fugitives from Troy. Among its notable ruins is a Greek
temple in the Doric order, which is one of the finest that have
survived to our time.]

IV

COMPLETION OF THE ATHENIAN DEFEAT AT SYRACUSE[36] (413 B.C.)

The Syracusans and the allies naturally thought that the struggle
would be brought to a glorious end if, after having defeated the
Athenian fleet, they took captive the whole of their great armament,
and did not allow them to escape either by sea or land. So they at
once began to close the mouth of the Great Harbor, which was about a
mile wide, by means of triremes, merchant-vessels, and small boats,
placed broadside, which they moored there. They made every preparation
also for a naval engagement, should the Athenians be willing to hazard
another; and all their thoughts were on a grand scale.

The Athenians, seeing the closing of the harbor and inferring the
intentions of the enemy, proceeded to