Pseudo-Xenophon (Old Oligarch), Constitution of the Athenians, chapter 2, section 13

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Furthermore, every mainland has either a projecting headland or an offshore island or some strait, so that it is possible for a naval power to put in there and to injure those who dwell on the land.¹

1 Cf. Thuc. 1.142 for a similar idea. Some have seen in this passage an allusion to the Pylos affair. That is hardly necessary.

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1984.

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