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31.
Indeed, at this moment, when they were now upon the point of parting from
one another, the danger came more home to them than when they voted for the
expedition; although the strength of the armament, and the profuse provision which they
remarked in every department, was a sight that could not but comfort them.
As for the foreigners and the rest of the crowd, they simply went to see a
sight worth looking at and passing all belief.Indeed this armament that first sailed out was by far the most costly and
splendid Hellenic force that had ever been sent out by a single city up to
that time.
[2]
In mere number of ships and heavy infantry that against Epidaurus under
Pericles, and the same when going against Potidaea under Hagnon, was not
inferior; containing as it did four thousand Athenian heavy infantry, three hundred
horse, and one hundred galleys accompanied by fifty Lesbian and Chian
vessels and many allies besides.
[3]
But these were sent upon a short voyage and with a scanty equipment.
The present expedition was formed in contemplation of a long term of
service by land and sea alike, and was furnished with ships and troops so as
to be ready for either as required.
The fleet had been elaborately equipped at great cost to the captains and
the state; the treasury giving a drachma a day to each seaman, and providing empty
ships, sixty men of war and forty transports, and manning these with the
best crews obtainable; while the captains gave a bounty in addition to the pay from the treasury
to the thranitae and crews generally, besides spending lavishly upon
figure-heads and equipments, and one and all making the utmost exertions to
enable their own ships to excel in beauty and fast sailing.
Meanwhile the land forces had been picked from the best muster-rolls, and
vied with each other in paying great attention to their arms and personal
accoutrements.
[4]
From this resulted not only a rivalry among themselves in their different
departments, but an idea among the rest of the Hellenes that it was more a
display of power and resources than an armament against an enemy.
[5]
For if any one had counted up the public expenditure of the state, and the
private outlay of individuals—that is to say, the sums which the
state had already spent upon the expedition and was sending out in the hands
of the generals, and those which individuals had expended upon their
personal outfit, or as captains of galleys had laid out and were still to
lay out upon their vessels; and if he had added to this the journey money which each was likely to have
provided himself with, independently of the pay from the treasury, for a
voyage of such length, and what the soldiers or traders took with them for
the purpose of exchange—it would have been found that many talents
in all were being taken out of the city.
[6]
Indeed the expedition became not less famous for its wonderful boldness and
for the splendour of its appearance, than for its overwhelming strength as
compared with the peoples against whom it was directed, and for the fact
that this was the longest passage from home hitherto attempted, and the most
ambitious in its objects considering the resources of those who undertook
it.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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