Νικίας

Sections

1.1 – 1.2 1.3 – 1.4 1.5 – 2.1 2.2 – 2.3 2.4 – 3.2 3.3 – 3.4 3.5 – 3.6 4.1 – 4.3 4.4 – 4.6 5.1 – 5.2 5.3 – 5.4 6.1 – 6.2 6.3 – 6.3 6.4 – 6.5 6.6 – 7.2 7.3 – 7.4 7.5 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.3 9.1 – 9.2 9.3 – 9.4 9.5 – 9.7 10.1 – 10.3 10.4 – 10.5 10.6 – 10.7 10.8 – 11.2 11.3 – 11.4 11.5 – 11.7 12.1 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.4 13.1 – 13.3 13.4 – 13.6 13.7 – 14.2 14.3 – 14.4 14.5 – 14.6 15.1 – 15.4 16.1 – 16.3 16.4 – 16.6 16.7 – 17.1 17.2 – 17.5 18.1 – 18.3 18.4 – 18.6 18.7 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.5 19.5 – 19.7 20.1 – 20.2 20.3 – 20.4 20.5 – 21.2 21.2 – 21.4 21.5 – 21.7 21.8 – 22.1 22.2 – 22.3 22.4 – 23.2 23.2 – 23.4 23.5 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.4 25.1 – 25.2 25.3 – 26.2 26.3 – 26.4 26.5 – 27.2 27.2 – 27.4 27.5 – 27.6 28.1 – 28.2 28.3 – 28.5 29.1 – 29.2 29.3 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.2

İngilizce Yunanca

14.3 Instead of this, while Lamachus urged that they sail direct to Syracuse and give battle close to the city, and Alcibiades that they rob the Syracusans of their allied cities first and then proceed against them, Nicias proposed and urged in opposition that they make their way quietly by sea along the coasts of Sicily, circumnavigate the island, make a display of their troops and triremes, and then sail back to Athens, after having first culled out a small part of their force to give the Egestaeans a taste of succor. In this way he soon relaxed the resolution and depressed the spirits of his men.

14.4 After a little while the Athenians summoned Alcibiades home to stand his trial, and then Nicias, who nominally had still a colleague in the command, but really wielded sole power, made no end of sitting idle, or cruising aimlessly about, or taking deliberate counsel, until the vigorous hopes of his men grew old and feeble, and the consternation and fear with which the first sight of his forces had filled his enemies slowly subsided.