During the armistice the Athenians expelled the Delians from Delos, concluding that they must have been polluted by some old offence at the time of their consecration, and that this had been the omission in the previous purification of the island, which, as I have related, had been thought to have been duly accomplished by the removal of the graves of the dead.
Armistizio aldian atenastarrek delostarrak Delostik egotzi zituzten, uste zutelako antzinako erru bategatik ez zela araztasun baldintzetan sagaratua izan eta, beraz, arazketarako betekizun hori gauzatzea falta zitzaiela, nahiz eta haiek uste izan zuten errito hori, lehenago azaldu dudan bezala, behar bezala egin zutela bertan hildakoak hobietatik atera zituztenean.