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37.
However, if they should come as is reported,
I consider Sicily better able to go through with the war than Peloponnese,
as being at all points better prepared, and our city by itself far more than
a match for this pretended army of invasion, even were it twice as large
again.
I know that they will not have horses with them, or get any here, except a
few perhaps from the Egestaeans; or be able to bring a force of heavy infantry equal in number to our own,
in ships which will already have enough to do to come all this distance,
however lightly laden, not to speak of the transport of the other stores
required against a city of this magnitude, which will be no slight quantity.
[2]
In fact, so strong is my opinion upon the subject, that I do not well see
how they could avoid annihilation if they brought with them another city as
large as Syracuse, and settled down and carried on war from our frontier; much less can they hope to succeed with all Sicily hostile to them, as all
Sicily will be, and with only a camp pitched from the ships, and composed of
tents and bare necessaries, from which they would not be able to stir far
for fear of our cavalry.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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