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τειχέων κιθῶνες: poetical, perhaps taken from a verse of an oracle, but cf. i. 181. 1, vii. 223. 1, and Demades, ap. Athen. iii. 99 D τὸ δὲ τειχος ἐσθῆτα τῆς πόλεως: and of a house Xen. Symp. iv. 38 πάνυ μὲν ἀλεεινοὶ χιτῶνες οἱ τοῖχοί μοι δοκοῦσιν εἶναι, πάνυ δὲ παχεῖαι ἐφεστρίδες οἱ ὄροφοι. For the facts cf. viii. 40. 71 f.; ix. 7 f. H. is surely right in maintaining that no permanent defence of Peloponnese was possible if the command of the sea was lost; cf. ix. 9; Thuc. i. 73ἐν Σαλαμῖνι ξυνναυμαχῆς ι, ὅπερ ἔσχε μὴ κατὰ πόλεις αὐτὸν ἐπιπλέοντα τὴν Πελόποννησον πορθεῖν, ἀδυνάτων ἂν ὄντων πρὸς ναῦς πολλὰς ἀλλήλοις ἐπιβοηθεῖν”.

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