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Excerpt from Thucydides, Vol. 3 of 4: With an English Translation by Charles Forster Smith of the University of Wisconsin I. The next summer the one-year's truce con tinned till, and ended with, the Pythian games.' During the suspension of arms the Athenians ex pelled the Delians from Delos, thinking that they had been consecrated2 while in a state of pollution from some ancient crime, and besides, that they them selves had been responsible for this defect in the purification, in which, as I have before related, they believed they had acted rightly in removing the coffins of the dead. And the Delians settled, ac cording as each man chose,3 in Atramytteum in Asia, which had been given them by Pharnaccs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.