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14.
Indeed it so happened that directly after the
battle of Amphipolis and the retreat of Ramphias from Thessaly, both sides
ceased to prosecute the war and turned their attention to peace.
Athens had suffered severely at Delium, and again shortly afterwards at
Amphipolis, and had no longer that confidence in her strength which had made
her before refuse to treat, in the belief of ultimate victory which her
success at the moment had inspired;
[2]
besides, she was afraid of her allies being tempted by her reverses to
rebel more generally, and repented having let go the splendid opportunity
for peace which the affair of Pylos had offered.
[3]
Lacedaemon, on the other hand, found the event of the war falsify her
notion that a few years would suffice for the overthrow of the power of the
Athenians by the devastation of their land.
She had suffered on the island a disaster hitherto unknown at Sparta; she saw her country plundered from Pylos and Cythera; the Helots were deserting, and she was in constant apprehension that those
who remained in Peloponnese would rely upon those outside and take advantage
of the situation to renew their old attempts at revolution.
[4]
Besides this, as chance would have it, her thirty years' truce with the
Argives was upon the point of expiring; and they refused to renew it unless Cynuria were restored to them; so that it seemed impossible to fight Argos and Athens at once.
She also suspected some of the cities in Peloponnese of intending to go
over to the enemy, as was indeed the case.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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