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118.
After this, though not many years later, we
at length come to what has been already related, the affairs of Corcyra and
Potidaea, and the events that served as a pretext for the present war.
[2]
All these actions of the Hellenes against each other and the barbarian
occurred in the fifty years' interval between the retreat of Xerxes and the
beginning of the present war.
During this interval the Athenians succeeded in placing their empire on a
firmer basis, and advanced their own home power to a very great height.
The Lacedaemonians, though fully aware of it, opposed it only for a little
while, but remained inactive during most of the period, being of old slow to
go to war except under the pressure of necessity, and in the present
instance being hampered by wars at home; until the growth of the Athenian power could be no longer ignored, and
their own confederacy became the object of its encroachments.
They then felt that they could endure it no longer, but that the time had
come for them to throw themselves heart and soul upon the hostile power, and
break it, if they could, by commencing the present war.
[3]
And though the Lacedaemonians had made up their own minds on the fact of
the breach of the treaty and the guilt of the Athenians, yet they sent to
Delphi and inquired of the god whether it would be well with them if they
went to war; and, as it is reported, received from him the answer that if they put their
whole strength into the war, victory would be theirs, and the promise that
he himself would be with them, whether invoked or uninvoked.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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