Pseudo-Xenophon (Old Oligarch), Constitution of the Athenians, chapter 2, section 4

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Moreover, the rulers of the sea can do just what rulers of the land sometimes can do, -- ravage the territory of the stronger.¹ For wherever there is no enemy (or wherever enemies are few), it is possible to put in along the coast and -- if there is an attack, -- to go on board one's ship and sail away; one who does this is less badly off than one who comes to help with infantry.

1 Cf. Pericles in Thuc. 1.143.3 and the Athenian raiding of the Peloponnesian coast (e.g. in 431, Thuc. 2.23.1). But the author need not refer here to the Peloponnesian War; in 455 Tolmides also proved the point (Thuc. 1.108.5).

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1984.

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