Note 10 — Chapter II · THE KNIGHTS.
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“A general feature of human nature, nowhere more observable than among boys at school, where the poor timid soul is always despatched upon the most perilous expeditions. Nicias is the fag—Demosthenes the big boy.”—Frere.
The influence of oracles on the public mind at Athens during the Peloponnesian War is notorious matter of history.