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But what most oppressed them was that they had two wars at once, and had
thus reached a pitch of frenzy which no one would have believed possible if
he had heard of it before it had come to pass.
For could any one have imagined that even when besieged by the
Peloponnesians entrenched in Attica, they would still, instead of
withdrawing from Sicily, stay on there besieging in like manner Syracuse, a
town （taken as a town） in no way inferior to Athens, or would so thoroughly upset the Hellenic
estimate of their strength and audacity, as to give the spectacle of a
people which, at the beginning of the war, some thought might hold out one
year, some two, none more than three, if the Peloponnesians invaded their
country, now seventeen years after the first invasion, after having already
suffered from all the evils of war, going to Sicily and undertaking a new
war nothing inferior to that which they already had with the Peloponnesians?
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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