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20.
‘I see, Athenians, that you are
thoroughly bent upon the expedition, and therefore hope that all will turn
out as we wish, and proceed to give you my opinion at the present juncture.
[2]
From all that I hear we are going against cities that are great and not
subject to one another, or in need of change, so as to be glad to pass from
enforced servitude to an easier condition, or in the least likely to accept
our rule in exchange for freedom; and, to take only the Hellenic towns, they are very numerous for one
island.
[3]
Besides Naxos and Catana, which I expect to join us from their connection
with Leontini, there are seven others armed at all points just like our own
power, particularly Selinus and Syracuse, the chief objects of our
expedition.
[4]
These are full of heavy infantry, archers, and darters, have galleys in
abundance and crowds to man them; they have also money, partly in the hands of private persons, partly in the
temples at Selinus, and at Syracuse first-fruits from some of the barbarians
as well.
But their chief advantage over us lies in the number of their horses, and
in the fact that they grow their corn at home instead of importing it.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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