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Sicily (Italy) (search for this): book 8, chapter 96
When the news of what had happened in Euboea
reached Athens a panic ensued such as they had never before known.
Neither the disaster in Sicily, great as it seemed at the time, nor any
other had ever so much alarmed them.
The camp at Samos was in revolt; they had no more ships or men to man them; they were at discord among themselves and might at any moment come to
blows; and a disaster of this magnitude coming on the top of all, by which they
lost their fleet, and worst of all Euboea, which was of more value to them
than Attica, could not occur without throwing them into the deepest
despondency.
Meanwhile their greatest and most immediate trouble was the possibility
that the enemy, emboldened by his
Hellespont (Turkey) (search for this): book 8, chapter 96
Piraeus (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 96
Ionia (search for this): book 8, chapter 96
Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 96
When the news of what had happened in Euboea
reached Athens a panic ensued such as they had never before known.
Neither the disaster in Sicily, great as it seemed at the time, nor any
other had ever so much alarmed them.
The camp at Samos was in revolt; they had no more ships or men to man them; they were at discord among themselves and might at any mo s, the slowness and want of
energy of the Lacedaemonians as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of
their opponents, proved of the greatest service, especially to a maritime
empire like Athens.
Indeed this was shown by the Syracusans, who were most like the Athenians
in character, and also most successful in combating them.
Euboea (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 96
When the news of what had happened in Euboea
reached Athens a panic ensued such as they had never before known.
Neither the disaster in Sicily, great as it seemed at the time, nor any
other had ever so much alarm blows; and a disaster of this magnitude coming on the top of all, by which they
lost their fleet, and worst of all Euboea, which was of more value to them
than Attica, could not occur without throwing them into the deepest
despondency.
and of their relatives, and in the meantime would have become master of the
Hellespont, Ionia, the islands, and of everything as far as Euboea, or, to
speak roundly, of the whole Athenian empire.
But here, as on so many other occasions the Lacedaemonians
Attica (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 96