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And so it turned out.
The Athenians formed outside the long walls, and the enemy not attacking,
there remained motionless; their generals having decided that the risk was too unequal.
In fact most of their objects had been already attained; and they would have to begin a battle against superior numbers, and if
victorious could only gain Megara, while a defeat would destroy the flower
of their heavy soldiery.
For the enemy it was different; as even the states actually represented in his army risked each only a part
of its entire force, he might well be more audacious.
Accordingly after waiting for some time without either side attacking, the
Athenians withdrew to Nisaea, and the Peloponnesians after them to the point
from which they had set out.
The friends of the Megarian exiles now threw aside their hesitation, and
opened the gates to Brasidas and the commanders from the different states
looking upon him as the victor and upon the Athenians as having declined the
battle—and receiving them into the town proceeded to discuss
matters with them; the party in correspondence with the Athenians being paralyzed by the turn
things had taken.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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