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55.
The Lacedaemonians seeing the Athenians
masters of Cythera, and expecting descents of the kind upon their coasts,
nowhere opposed them in force, but sent garrisons here and there through the
country, consisting of as many heavy infantry as the points menaced seemed
to require, and generally stood very much upon the defensive.
After the severe and unexpected blow that had befallen them in the island,
the occupation of Pylos and Cythera, and the apparition on every side of a
war whose rapidity defied precaution, they lived in constant fear of
internal revolution,
[2]
and now took the unusual step of raising four hundred horse and a force of
archers, and became more timid than ever in military matters, finding
themselves involved in a maritime struggle, which their organisation had
never contemplated, and that against Athenians, with whom an enterprise
unattempted was always looked upon as a success sacrificed.
[3]
Besides this, their late numerous reverses of fortune, coming close one
upon another without any reason, had thoroughly unnerved them, and they were
always afraid of a second disaster like that on the island,
[4]
and thus scarcely dared to take the field, but fancied that they could not
stir without a blunder, for being new to the experience of adversity they
had lost all confidence in themselves.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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