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453 B.C.When Lysicrates was archon in Athens, in Rome the consuls elected
were Gaius Nautius Rutilus and Lucius Minucius Carutianus. During this year Pericles, the
general of the Athenians, landed in the Peloponnesus
and ravaged the territory of the Sicyonians. And when the
Sicyonians came out against him in full force and a battle was fought, Pericles was victorious,
slew many as they fled, and shut them up in their city, to which he laid siege. But when he was
unable by making assaults upon the walls to take the city, and when, besides, the
Lacedaemonians sent aid to the besieged, he withdrew from Sicyon; then he sailed to Acarnania,
where he overran the territory of Oeniadae, amassed much booty, and then sailed away from
Acarnania. After
this he arrived at the CherronesusThe Thracian, in 447 B.C. and portioned out the land in allotments to one thousand
citizens. While these events were taking place, Tolmides, the otheri.e. in
Since the Crotoniates in their anger would take no prisoners but slew all who fell
into their hands in the flight, the larger number of the Sybarites perished; and they plundered
the city of Sybaris and laid it entirely waste.
Fifty-eight years laterIn 453 B.C. Thessalians joined in settling the city, but
after a little while they were driven out by the Crotoniates, in the period we are now
discussing. And shortly thereafter the city was moved to
another site and received another name, its founders being Lampon and Xenocritus; the
circumstances of its refounding were as follows.The Sybarites
who were driven a second time from their native city dispatched ambassadors to Greece, to the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, requesting that
they assist their repatriation and take part in the settlement. Now the Lacedaemonians paid no attention to them, but the Athenians promised to join in the
enterprise, and they manned ten ships and sent them t