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 | | Hence II 65 sets the Sicilian expedition not only in the perspective of Athens' political weakness, of which more will be said presently, but also in that of her great initial strength which, as the burden of the first book, provides the basis of Pericles' confident prognosis (I 141.2-144). |
 | | Cleon (as is evident from the Mytilenean Debate) did not understand the true needs of the empire; he also enflamed, rather than checked, the people's dangerous desires. |
 | | Cleon, on the contrary, in the fear inspired by the revolt of Mytilene, fostered their inevitable mood of violence, and likewise after Pylos he played on their contrasting optimism, when (so Thucydides keeps repeating) pleÒnvn >>rdeg.gonto. |
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