[68] Thucyd. lib. 2. p. 101, &c. sect. 6. [69] Thucyd. Πάντων δ’ αὐτῶν αἴτιον ἡ ἀρχὴ διὰ πλεονεξίαν καὶ φιλοτιμίαν. lib. 3. p. 218. sect. 82. [70] Τὰ δὲ μέσα τῶν πολιτῶν ὑπ’ ἀμφοτέρων, ἢ ὅτι οὐ ξυνηγωνίζοντο, ἢ φθόνῳ τοῦ περιεῖναι διεφθείροντο Thucyd. p. 219. [71] Thucyd. lib. 1 p. 91. sect. 140. [72] Thucyd. lib. 2. p. 127. sect. 47. et seq. [73] Plut. in Vit. Pericl. p. 171. lit. E. [74] Plut. in Vit. Nic. p. 524. lit. B. [75] Hence, as Plutarch informs us, it was termed the Nician peace, lib. 5. [76] Plut. in Vit. Alcib. p. 203. lit. B. [77] Plut. Vit. Alcib. p. 197. lit. C. [78] Thucyd. lib. 5. p. 339. sect. 35, 42. [79] Thucyd. lib. 5. p. 350. sect. 52. [80] Thucyd. lib. 6. p. 383. sect. 8. [81] Thucyd. lib. 6. p. 381. sect. 6. [82] Plut. in Vita Alcibid. Item. Thucyd. in orat. Alcib. ad Lacedæm. lib. 6. p. 436. sect. 90. [83] Thucyd. lib. 6. 395, 396. sect. 28, 29. [84] Thucyd. The terms were statues of Mercury, placed at the doors of their houses, made of square stones of a cubical form. [85] A similar measure was taken in the latter end of queen Anne’s reign. [86] Plut. in Vit. Alcib. p. 200. lit. D. [87] Thucyd. lib. 6. 395. sect. 28. [88] Thucyd. ibid. [89] Thucyd. ibid. sect. 29. passim. [90] Thucyd. lib. 6. 395. sect. 23. ad finem. [91] Thucyd. lib. 6. p. 396. sect. 31. [92] Thucyd. lib. 6. p. 408. sect. 47, 48, 49. [93] Thucyd. lib. 6. p. 411. sect. 53. [94] Ibid. p. 415. sect. 60. [95] Plut. in Vit. Alcib. p. 202. [96] Thucyd. p. 416. sect. 60. [97] Plut. in Vit. Alcib. p. 201. lit. C. [98] Thucyd. lib. 6. p. 416. sect. 61. [99] Thucyd. lib. 6. p. 416. sect. 61. [100] Ibid. [101] This vessel may properly be termed the Athenian State-packet-boat, and was never sent out but upon very extraordinary occasions. Plut. [102] Thucyd. lib. 6. p. 417. sect. 61. [103] Thucyd. ibid. [104] Plut. in Vit. Alcib. p. 202. [105] Thucyd. lib. 7. p. 505. ad finem. [106] Thucyd. lib. 8. p. 506. &c. [107] Thucyd. ibid. p. 507. [108] Thucyd. ibid. p. 508. sect. 2. [109] Thucyd. lib. 8. sect. 2....3. [110] Thucyd. ibid. sect. 4. [111] Plut. in Vit. Alcib. p. 203. [112] Thucyd. lib. 8. p. 531. sect. 45. [113] Thucyd. ibid. sect. 46. [114] Thucyd. ibid. p. 531. sect. 45. [115] Thucyd. ibid. sect. 47. [116] Thucyd. ibid. sect. 48. [117] Thucyd. ibid. sect. 49. [118] Thucyd. ibid. sect. 53. [119] Thucyd. ibid. sect. 54. [120] Thucyd. ibid. sect. 56. [121] Thucyd. ibid. 66. [122] Thucyd. ibid. 67. [123] Thucyd. ibid. 68. [124] Thucyd. ibid. 69. [125] Solon’s new senate of four hundred. [126] Thucyd. ibid. 70. [127] Thucyd. lib. 8. p. 543, sect. 65. [128] Thucyd. lib. 8. p. 551. sect. 76. [129] Thucyd. ibid. p. 553. sect. 81. [130] Thucyd. ibid. p. 567. sect. 97. [131] Plut. in Vit. Alcib. p. 206. [132] Plut. ibid. p. 207, 208.