[L] From the Commencement of the Fourth Year of the Peloponnesian War down to the Revolutionary Commotions at Korkyra

During the fourth year of the war the Peloponnesians, under Archidamus, again repeated their invasion and ravage of Attica, which had been intermitted during the year preceding. As before, they met with no serious resistance. Entering the country about the beginning of May, they continued the process of devastation until their provisions were exhausted. To this damage the Athenians had probably now accustomed themselves: but they speedily received, even while the invaders were in their country, intelligence of an event far more embarrassing and formidable - the revolt of Mitylênê and of the greater part of Lesbos.