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17.
If at the time that this fleet was at sea,
Athens had almost the largest number of first-rate ships in commission that
she ever possessed at any one moment, she had as many or even more when the
war began.
[2]
At that time one hundred guarded Attica, Euboea, and Salamis; a hundred more were cruising round Peloponnese, besides those employed at
Potidaea and in other places; making a grand total of two hundred and fifty vessels employed on active
service in a single summer.
[3]
It was this, with Potidaea, that most exhausted her revenues—
[4]
Potidaea being blockaded by a force of heavy infantry （each
drawing two drachmae a day, one for himself and another for his
servant）, which amounted to three thousand at first, and was kept
at this number down to the end of the siege; besides sixteen hundred with Phormio who went away before it was over; and the ships being all paid at the same rate.
In this way her money was wasted at first; and this was the largest number of ships ever manned by her.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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