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| Quinten Metsys Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1510 oil on panel Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1550-1600 oil on panel Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Luca Cambiaso Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1560 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Camillo Procaccini Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1583 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Hans Rottenhammer Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1595-97 oil on copper Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Jan Brueghel the Elder and workshop Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1600 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Francesco Albani Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1604 oil on panel Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Simone Cantarini (il Pesarese) Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1630-40 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Simon Vouet Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1638-39 oil on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
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| Claude Lorrain Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1640 oil on canvas Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha |
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| Francesco Albani Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1640 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Pier Francesco Mola Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1660 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Antonio Domenico Triva Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1675 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Carlo Saraceni Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1692 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ignác Bendl Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1700 etching Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1720 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
The Athenians, as long as the army of the enemy lay about Eleusis and the fields of Thrius and as long as they had any hope it would come on no farther, remembering that also Pleistoanax the son of Pausanias, king of Lacedaemon, when fourteen years before this war he entered Attica with an army of the Peloponnesians as far as Eleusis and Thriasia, retired again and came no farther (for which he was also banished Sparta as thought to have gone back for money), they stirred not. But when they saw the army now at Acharnas but sixty furlongs from the city, then they thought it no longer to be endured; and when their fields were wasted (as it was likely) in their sight, which the younger sort had never seen before nor the elder but in the Persian war, it was taken for a horrible matter and thought fit by all, especially the youth, to go out and not endure it any longer. And holding councils apart from one another, they were at much contention, some to make a sally and some to hinder it. And the priests of the oracles giving out prophecies of all kinds, everyone made the interpretation according to the sway of his own affection. But the Acharnians, conceiving themselves to be no small part of the Athenians, were they that, whilst their own lands were wasting, most of all urged their going out. Insomuch as the city was every way in tumult and in choler against Pericles, remembering nothing of what he had formerly admonished them, but reviled him for that being their general he refused to lead them into the field, and imputing unto him the cause of all their evil.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)