While the Peloponnesians were still mustering at the Isthmus, or on the march before they invaded Attica, Pericles, son of Xanthippus, one of the ten generals of the Athenians, finding that the invasion was to take place, conceived the idea that Archidamus, who happened to be his friend, might possibly pass by his estate without ravaging it. This he might do, either from a personal wish to oblige him, or acting under instructions from Lacedaemon for the purpose of creating a prejudice against him, as had been before attempted in the demand for the expulsion of the accursed family.
13. Peloponesoarrak istmoan egon ziren edo Atika inbaditu aurretik bidez zihoazen garaian, Xantiporen seme Periklesek, zeina jeneral atenastarra zen beste bederatzi lagunekin batera, inbasioa gertatuko zela jakin zuenean, errezeloz bete zen, Arkidemok soroak deboilatu gabe utziko ote zizkion beldur baitzen, dela berari mesede partikular bat egin nahirik arrotz-laguna zuelako, dela lazedemondarren aginduz, bera erruztatzeko asmoz-atenastarren izenean sakrilegioetatik libre gelditzea galdatu zutenean bezala-, eta, horregatik, atenastarren aurrean publikoki deklaratu zuen Arkidamo arrotz-laguna zuela, baina horrek ez zekarkiola hiriari kalterik, etsaiek bere soro eta etxeak besteenak bezala suntsitzen ez bazituzten, jabetza publikokoak izan zitezen utziko zituelako;