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494 HISTORY OF GREECE peace as unjust, and voted against it in the general assembly of allies, but refused to accept i f when the vote was carried, and went home to their respective cities for instructions. 1 Such were the conditions, and such the accompanying circum- stances, of the Peace of Nikias, which terminated, or professed to terminate, the great Peloponnesian war, after a duration of ten years. Its consequences and fruits, in many respects such as were not anticipated by either of the concluding parties, will be jeen in ray next volume.
' Thucrd. T, 23
