These were the changes and differences existing between the rival powers before the war, arising immediately from the affair at Epidamnus and Corcyra. Still intercourse continued in spite of them, and mutual communication. It was carried on without heralds, but not without suspicion, as events were occurring which were equivalent to a breach of the treaty and matter for war.
The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.
battle of Corcyra — a candidate entry siege of Epidamnus — a candidate entry
History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides — translated by Richard Crawley, 1874
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