Note 53 — Chapter XXXII · THE SECOND AND THIRD YEARS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

[In the words of Thucydides,c “Never to desert the Athenians, to bear any devastation of their lands, nay, if such be the case, to behold it with patience, and to suffer any extremities to which their enemies might reduce them; that, further, no person should stir out of the city, but an answer be given from the walls; that it was impossible for them to accept the terms proposed by the Lacedæmonians.”]