[yarddog]

Thanks, that is some great information.

I was a Classics major for a while and have to admit that I did not know that was why Thucydides was exiled.

[Verginius Rufus]

Thucydides describes the capture of Amphipolis by Brasidas in book 4, chapters 102 to 108, and mentions in passing in book 5, chapter 26, that “it happened, too, that I was banished from my country for twenty years after my command at Amphipolis...”