GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng6:8.4.1 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng6:8.4.1

In the meantime the Athenians were not idle. During this same winter, as they had determined, they contributed timber and pushed on their ship-building, and fortified Sunium to enable their corn-ships to round it in safety, and evacuated the fort in Laconia which they had built on their way to Sicily; while they also, for economy, cut down any other expenses that seemed unnecessary, and above all kept a careful look-out against the revolt of their confederates.