Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sicily” in book 4, chapter 24, section 4 of Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War:
... and land, and easily to reduce it; a success which would at once place their affairs upon a solid basis, the
promontory of Rhegium in Italy and Messina in Sicily being so near each
other that it would be impossible for the Athenians to cruise against them
and command the strait.
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