¹ This force was packed into 30 ships, though Pericles' force of 4,000 hoplites and 300 cavalry went forth in 100 ships (II. 56). In IV. 42 we read of 2,000 hoplites and 200 horse in 80 ships; in VI. 43 of 5,000 hoplites and 1,300 light-armed in 134; in VII. 42 of 5,000 hoplites and numerous light-armed in 73; in VIII. 25 of 2,500 hoplites and 1,000 allies in 48 ships. Obviously the tightness of packing varied.

² If Thucydides had applied the same prejudice to the actions of Nicias, (Aristoph. Birds, 640), how would Nicias' weakness have come out! Cleon is too often credited, by analogy with modern days, with ignorance and ill-breeding arising from want of a ‘liberal education.’ But we have no proof that Nicias or Alcibiades were better trained than Cleon. See on this point Holm's History of Greece, II. ch. ii. n. I, ch. xxviii. n. 8.

³ I read ; cp. III. 46.