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| Sebald Beham Alexander the Great with Bucephalus before 1550 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Sebald Beham Drummer and Standard-Bearer 1544 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Sebald Beham Army on the March - Pikeman and Mounted Officer ca. 1520 woodcut Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Sebald Beham Army on the March - Baggage and Followers ca. 1520 woodcut Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Sebald Beham Three Soldiers before 1550 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Sebald Beham after Barthel Beham Abduction of Helen before 1550 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Sebald Beham Coat of Arms of Kress von Kressenstein before 1550 woodcut Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Sebald Beham Drawing Manual - Studies of Heads 1546 woodcuts and letterpress Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Sebald Beham Drawing Manual - Studies of Heads 1546 woodcuts and letterpress Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Sebald Beham Allegory - The Impossible 1549 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Sebald Beham Ornamental Panel with Tritons ca. 1530-40 woodcut Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Sebald Beham after Barthel Beham Virgin and Child with a Parrot 1549 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Sebald Beham Death and the Family of Adam and Eve 1530 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Sebald Beham Death and Three Women before 1550 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Sebald Beham Death and the Shameless Couple 1529 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Sebald Beham The Hour of Death 1522 hand-colored woodcut Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
In the end of the same summer the Athenians sent twenty galleys into Sicily under the command of Laches the son of Melanopus and Charoeadas the son of Euphiletus, for the Syracusians and the Leontines were now warring against each other. The confederates of the Syracusians were all the Doric cities except the Camarinaeans, which also in the beginning of this war were reckoned in the league of the Lacedaemonians but had not yet aided them in the war. The confederates of the Leontines were the Chalcidique cities together with Camarina. And in Italy the Locrians were with the Syracusians; but the Rhegians, according to their consanguinity, took part with the Leontines. Now the confederates of the Leontines, in respect of their ancient alliance with the Athenians as also for that they were Ionians, obtained of the Athenians to send them galleys, for that the Leontines were deprived by the Syracusians of the use both of the land and sea. And so the people of Athens sent aid unto them, pretending propinquity but intending both to hinder the transportation of corn from thence into Peloponnesus and also to test the possibility of taking the states of Sicily into their own hands. These arriving at Rhegium in Italy joined with the confederates and began the war. And so ended this summer.
The next winter, the sickness fell upon the Athenians again (having indeed never totally left the city, though there was some intermission) and continued above a year after; but the former lasted two years, insomuch as nothing afflicted the Athenians or impaired their strength more than it. For the number that died of it of men of arms enrolled were no less than four thousand four hundred; and horsemen, three hundred; of the multitude, innumerable. There happened also at the same time many earthquakes both in Athens and Euboea and also amongst the Boeotians, and in Boeotia chiefly at Orchomenus.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)