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Updated: May 28, 2025
A second, sent two years later direct across the Aegean, reduced the Cyclad isles, revenged itself on Eretria, one of the minor culprits in the Sardian affair, and finally brought up by the Attic shore at Marathon.
Instead of this, they looked around for fresh conquests, and fixed their eyes on the little island of Melos, belonging to the Cyclad group, which had been colonized in very early times from Sparta. The Melians had not joined the Confederacy of Delos, and they might therefore be reproached for sharing the protection of Athens without making any return.
ISTO: the use of the neuter pronoun in the oblique case as substantive is noticeable. SERIPHIO: Seriphus is a small island belonging to the Cyclad group and lying almost due N. of Melos, and due E. of the Scyllaean promontory. Aristoph. Acharn. 542; Cic. IURGIO: iurgium is a quarrel which does not go beyond words; rixa a quarrel where the disputants come to blows. SI EGO: but further on, tu si.
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