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69.
The armies being now on the eve of engaging,
each contingent received some words of encouragement from its own commander.
The Mantineans were reminded that they were going to fight for their
country and to avoid returning to the experience of servitude after having
tasted that of empire; the Argives, that they would contend for their ancient supremacy, to regain
their once equal share of Peloponnese of which they had been so long
deprived, and to punish an enemy and a neighbor for a thousand wrongs; the Athenians, of the glory of gaining the honors of the day with so many
and brave allies in arms, and that a victory over the Lacedaemonians in
Peloponnese would cement and extend their empire, and would besides preserve
Attica from all invasions in future.
[2]
These were the incitements addressed to the Argives and their allies.
The Lacedaemonians meanwhile, man to man, and with their war-songs in the
ranks, exhorted each brave comrade to remember what he had learnt before; well aware that the long training of action was of more saving virtue than
any brief verbal exhortation, though never so well delivered.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.2
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LIX
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- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 4.126
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 4.95
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 6.68
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