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28.
Nicias, seeing the Athenians murmuring
against Cleon for not sailing now if it seemed to him so easy, and further
seeing himself the object of attack, told him that for all that the generals
cared, he might take what force he chose and make the attempt.
[2]
At first Cleon fancied that this resignation was merely a figure of speech,
and was ready to go, but finding that it was seriously meant, he drew back,
and said that Nicias, not he, was general, being now frightened, and having
never supposed that Nicias would go so far as to retire in his favour.
[3]
Nicias, however, repeated his offer, and resigned the command against
Pylos, and called the Athenians to witness that he did so.
And as the multitude is wont to do, the more Cleon shrank from the
expedition and tried to back out of what he had said, the more they
encouraged Nicias to hand over his command, and clamored at Cleon to go.
[4]
At last, not knowing how to get out of his words, he undertook the
expedition, and came forward and said that he was not afraid of the
Lacedaemonians, but would sail without taking any one from the city with
him, except the Lemnians and Imbrians that were at Athens, with some
targeteers that had come up from Aenus, and four hundred archers from other
quarters.
With these and the soldiers at Pylos, he would within twenty days either
bring the Lacedaemonians alive, or kill them on the spot.
[5]
The Athenians could not help laughing at his fatuity, while sensible men
comforted themselves with the reflection that they must gain in either
circumstance; either they would be rid of Cleon, which they rather hoped, or if
disappointed in this expectation, would reduce the Lacedaemonians.
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- LSJ, ἐξανα-χωρέω
- LSJ, ἐξαπ-αλλάσσω
- LSJ, ἐξίστημι
- LSJ, ἐμπίπτω
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- LSJ, ἐπιβο-άω
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- LSJ, ἐπιτιμ-έω
- LSJ, εἰμί
- LSJ, κουφο-λογία
- LSJ, παραδωσείω
- LSJ, πλέω
- LSJ, τόσος
- LSJ, τοξότης
- LSJ, ὑφίστημι
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- LSJ, ὑποθορυ^βέω
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