Chapter 20 No.20

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War-Inaction of the Athenian Army-Alcibiades at Sparta-Investment of Syracuse

The Athenian generals left in Sicily now divided the armament into two parts, and, each taking one by lot, sailed with the whole for Selinus and Egesta, wishing to know whether the Egestaeans would give the money, and to look int