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‘And now think thus: that though we have carried ourselves, both captains and soldiers, in that for which we came at first hither, unblameably, yet since all Sicily is united against us and another army expected out of Peloponnesus, you must resolve (for those we have here are not enough for the enemy's present forces) either to send for these away, or to send hither another army, both of land and sea soldiers, no less than the former, and money not a little;
and also a general to succeed me, who am able no longer to stay here, being troubled with the stone [in the kidneys].
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I must crave your pardon.
I have done you many good services in the conducts of your armies when I had my health.
What you will do, do in the very beginning of spring, and delay it not.
For the enemy will soon have furnished himself of his Sicilian aids;
and though those from Peloponnesus will be later, yet if you look not to it, they will get hither partly unseen, as before, and partly by preventing you with speed.’
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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