History of the Peloponnesian War

That there were also matches of music and that men resorted thither to contend therein he again maketh manifest in these verses of the same hymn. For after he hath spoken of the Delian dance of the women, he endeth their praise with these verses, wherein also he maketh mention of himself:

1. But well: let Phoebus and Diana be
2. Propitious; and farewell you, each one.
3. But yet remember me when I am gone:
4. And if of earthly men you chance to see
5. Any toil'd pilgrim, that shall ask you, Who,
6. O damsels, is the man that living here
7. Was sweet'st in song, and that most had your ear?
8. Then all, with a joint murmur, thereunto

1. Make answer thus: A man deprived of seeing;
2. In the isle of sandy Chios is his being.

So much hath Homer witnessed touching the great meeting and solemnity celebrated of old in the isle of Delos. And the islanders and the Athenians, since that time, have continued still to send dancers along with their sacrificers; but the games and things of that kind were worn out, as is likely, by adversity till now that the Athenians restored the games and added the horse race, which was not before.

The same winter the Ambraciotes, according to their promise made to Eurylochus when they retained his army, made war upon Argos in Amphilochia with three thousand men of arms, and invading Argeia, they took Olpae, a strong fort on a hill by the sea-side, which the Acarnanians had fortified and used for the place of their common meetings for matters of justice, and is distant from the city of Argos, which stands also on the sea-side, about twenty-five furlongs.