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8.
Early in the spring of the following summer
the Athenian envoys arrived from Sicily, and the Egestaeans with them,
bringing sixty talents of uncoined silver, as a month's pay for sixty ships,
which they were to ask to have sent them.
[2]
The Athenians held an assembly, and after hearing from the Egestaeans and
their own envoys a report, as attractive as it was untrue, upon the state of
affairs generally, and in particular as to the money, of which, it was said,
there was abundance in the temples and the treasury, voted to send sixty
ships to Sicily, under the command of Alcibiades, son of Clinias, Nicias,
son of Niceratus, and Lamachus, son of Xenophanes, who were appointed with
full powers; they were to help the Egestaeans against the Selinuntines, to restore
Leontini upon gaining any advantage in the war, and to order all other
matters in Sicily as they should deem best for the interests of Athens.
[3]
Five days after this a second assembly was held, to consider the speediest
means of equipping the ships, and to vote whatever else might be required by
the generals for the expedition;
[4]
and Nicias, who had been chosen to the command against his will, and who
thought that the state was not well advised, but upon a slight and specious
pretext was aspiring to the conquest of the whole of Sicily, a great matter
to achieve, came forward in the hope of diverting the Athenians from the
enterprise, and gave them the following counsel:—
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.29
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- Lysias, On the Confiscation of the Property of the Brother of Nicias, Lys. 18 2
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
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