§7.19.1τοῦ δ’ ἐπιγιγνομένου ἦρος εὐθὺς ἀρχομένου πρωίτατα δὴ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι ἐς τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἐσέβαλον· ἡγεῖτο δὲ Ἆγις ὁ Ἀρχιδάμου Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεύς.
At the very beginning of the following spring, at the earliest moment, the Lacedaemonians and their allies invaded Attica; Agis, the son of Archidamus, the king of the Lacedaemonians, was in command.
καὶ πρῶτον μὲν τῆς χώρας τὰ περὶ τὸ πεδίον ἐδῄωσαν, ἔπειτα Δεκέλειαν ἐτείχιζον, κατὰ πόλεις διελόμενοι τὸ ἔργον.
And first they ravaged the parts of the country around the plain, and then they proceeded to fortify Decelea, dividing the work among the various cities.
§7.19.2ἀπέχει δὲ ἡ Δεκέλεια σταδίους μάλιστα τῆς τῶν Ἀθηναίων πόλεως εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατόν, παραπλήσιον δὲ καὶ οὐ πολλῷ πλέον καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Βοιωτίας.
Decelea is distant about one hundred and twenty stades from the city of the Athenians, and about the same distance, or not much more, from Boeotia.
ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ πεδίῳ καὶ τῆς χώρας τοῖς κρατίστοις ἐς τὸ κακουργεῖν ᾠκοδομεῖτο τὸ τεῖχος, ἐπιφανὲς μέχρι τῆς τῶν Ἀθηναίων πόλεως.
The wall was built on the plain and on the best parts of the country for doing mischief, being visible as far as the city of the Athenians.
§7.19.3καὶ οἱ μὲν ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ Πελοποννήσιοι καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι ἐτείχιζον, οἱ δ’ ἐν τῇ Πελοποννήσῳ ἀπέστελλον περὶ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον ταῖς ὁλκάσι τοὺς ὁπλίτας ἐς τὴν Σικελίαν, Λακεδαιμόνιοι μὲν τῶν τε Εἱλώτων ἐπιλεξάμενοι τοὺς βελτίστους καὶ τῶν νεοδαμωδῶν, ξυναμφοτέρων ἐς ἑξακοσίους ὁπλίτας,καὶ Ἔκκριτον Σπαρτιάτην ἄρχοντα, Βοιωτοὶ δὲ τριακοσίους ὁπλίτας, ὧν ἦρχον Ξένων τε καὶ Νίκων Θηβαῖοι καὶ Ἡγήσανδρος Θεσπιεύς.
And while the Peloponnesians and their allies in Attica were building the wall, those in the Peloponnese, around the same time, were sending out the hoplites in merchant ships to Sicily; the Lacedaemonians selected the best of the Helots and of the Neodamodes, amounting together to about six hundred hoplites, and appointed Eccritus, a Spartan, as commander, and the Boeotians sent three hundred hoplites, who were commanded by Xenon and Nicon, Thebans, and Hegesandrus, a Thespian.
§7.19.4οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ἐν τοῖς πρῶτοι ὁρμήσαντες ἀπὸ τοῦ Ταινάρου τῆς Λακωνικῆς ἐς τὸ πέλαγος ἀφῆκαν· μετὰ δὲ τούτους Κορίνθιοι οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον πεντακοσίους ὁπλίτας, τοὺς μὲν ἐξ αὐτῆς Κορίνθου, τοὺς δὲ προσμισθωσάμενοι Ἀρκάδων, καὶ ἄρχοντα Ἀλέξαρχον Κορίνθιον προστάξαντες ἀπέπεμψαν.
These, therefore, starting among the first, put out into the open sea from Taenarum in Laconia; and not long after them the Corinthians sent out five hundred hoplites, some from Corinth itself, and others whom they hired from among the Arcadians, and they dispatched them having appointed Alexarchus, a Corinthian, as commander.
ἀπέστειλαν δὲ καὶ Σικυώνιοι διακοσίους ὁπλίτας ὁμοῦ τοῖς Κορινθίοις, ὧν ἦρχε Σαργεὺς Σικυώνιος.
The Sicyonians also sent out two hundred hoplites along with the Corinthians, who were commanded by Sargeus, a Sicyonian.
§7.19.5αἱ δὲ πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι νῆες τῶν Κορινθίων αἱ τοῦ χειμῶνος πληρωθεῖσαι ἀνθώρμουν ταῖς ἐν τῇ Ναυπάκτῳ εἴκοσιν Ἀττικαῖς, ἕωσπερ αὐτοῖς οὗτοι οἱ ὁπλῖται ταῖς ὁλκάσιν ἀπὸ τῆς Πελοποννήσου ἀπῆραν· οὗπερ ἕνεκα καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἐπληρώθησαν, ὅπως μὴ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι πρὸς τὰς ὁλκάδας μᾶλλον ἢ πρὸς τὰς τριήρεις τὸν νοῦν ἔχωσιν.
And the twenty-five Corinthian ships which had been manned during the winter lay at anchor opposite the twenty Athenian ships at Naupactus, until these hoplites of theirs had sailed in the merchant ships from the Peloponnese; for which very purpose they had been manned in the first place, so that the Athenians might direct their attention to the triremes rather than to the merchant ships.