Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, BOOK VI, chapter 1

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1. DURING the same winter the Athenians conceived a desire of sending another expedition to¹ Sicily, larger than those commanded by Laches and Eurymedon² They hoped to conquer the island. Of its great size and numerous population, barbarian as well as Hellenic, most of them knew nothing, and they never reflected that they were entering on a struggle almost as arduous as the Peloponnesian War. [2] The voyage in a merchant-vessel round Sicily takes up nearly eight days, and this great island is all but a part of the mainland, being divided from it by a sea not much more than two miles in width.

1 The Athenians, ignorant of the size and resources of the island, determine to send a great expedition to Sicily.

2 Cp. 3.86, 115.

Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.

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Commentary references to this page (10):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 217
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.183
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.97
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.1
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.51
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.85
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.89
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.25
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.35
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.35
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.1.3
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), GENOS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CAENYS
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
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- Thucydides, Histories, 3.115
- Thucydides, Histories, 3.86
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- LSJ, ἄπειρος
- LSJ, ἐν
- LSJ, εἰκοσι^-στάδιος

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