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Demosthenes, seeing how matters stood, felt that he could not drag on and
fare as Nicias had done, who by wintering in Catana instead of at once
attacking Syracuse had allowed the terror of his first arrival to evaporate
in contempt, and had given time to Gylippus to arrive with a force from
Peloponnese, which the Syracusans would never have sent for if he had
attacked immediately; for they fancied that they were a match for him by themselves, and would
not have discovered their inferiority until they were already invested, and
even if they then sent for succors, they would no longer have been equally
able to profit by their arrival.
Recollecting this, and well aware that it was now on the first day after
his arrival that he like Nicias was most formidable to the enemy,
Demosthenes determined to lose no time in drawing the utmost profit from the
consternation at the moment inspired by his army;
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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