αἱ δὲ τῶν Μεγαρέων στάσεις φοβούμεναι , οἱ μὲν μὴ τοὺς φεύγοντας σφίσιν ἐσαγαγὼν αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλῃ , οἱ δὲ μὴ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ὁ δῆμος δείσας ἐπίθηται σφίσι καὶ ἡ πόλις ἐν μάχῃ καθ’ αὑτὴν οὖσα ἐγγὺς ἐφεδρευόντων Ἀθηναίων ἀπόληται , οὐκ ἐδέξαντο , ἀλλ’ ἀμφοτέροις ἐδόκει ἡσυχάσασι τὸ μέλλον περιιδεῖν . ἤλπιζον
γὰρ καὶ μάχην ἑκάτεροι ἔσεσθαι τῶν τε Ἀθηναίων καὶ τῶν προσβοηθησάντων , καὶ οὕτω σφίσιν ἀσφαλεστέρως ἔχειν , οἷς τις εἴη εὔνους , κρατήσασι προσχωρῆσαι · ὁ δὲ Βρασίδας ὡς οὐκ ἔπειθεν , ἀνεχώρησε πάλιν ἐς τὸ ἄλλο στράτευμα .
Historiae. Thucydides. Henry Stuart Jones. Oxford. 1910.
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