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suddenly began to have burning feelings Ibid., 2 49 2–3.

“Nothing did the Athenians so much harm” Ibid., 3 87 2.

“It was the one thing I didn’t predict” Ibid., 2 64 1.

Aristotle wrote in his study Arist Po 16 29ff.

“Beyond all telling” Soph Oed 179ff.

“War with the Dorians” Thuc 2 54 2.

He became depressed Plut Per 37 1.

“as is the way with crowds” Ibid., 2 65 4.

“Your empire” Thuc 2 63 2.

“Being powerful because of his rank” Ibid., 2 65 8–11.

“War is a stern master” Ibid., 3 82 2.

“persuaded about fifty of them” Ibid., 3 81 2–3.

“kill themselves by thrusting into their throats” Ibid., 4 48 3.

“In theory the crime was” Ibid., 3 81 4–5.

“Reckless aggression was now regarded” Ibid., 3 82 4–5.

“right to act as it saw fit” Ibid., 3 28 1.

“the most violent of its citizens” Ibid., 3 36 6.

“By giving way to your feelings” Ibid., 3 37 2.

“The right way to deal with free people” Ibid., 3 46 6.

“Mytilene had had a narrow escape” Ibid., 3 49 4.

all the adult males of Scione Ibid., 5 32 1.

Perhaps to remind the world I am obliged to Kagan, Peloponnesian, p. 203, for the suggestion.

“A starving wolf” Perry Index 346.

“a living piece of property” Arist Pol 1253b23.

anonymous author Modern scholars have named him the Old Oligarch.

“allowed to take the greatest liberties”

Xen Con 1 10.

“get a house, a bought woman” Hes Works 405f.

An auction sale list IG 1³ 421, col. 1.

“it is contrary to nature” Arist Pol 1253bl4.

a magnificent natural harbor Today’s Navarino Bay.

“make what use he liked” Thuc 4 2 4.

“I’ll shout down” Ar Kni 358.

“He’s the best of citizens” Plut Nic 4 6.

“If only our generals were real men” Thuc 4 27 1.

Some captured shields were sent back ASCSA Agora Object B 62.

They were still on show in the second century Pau 1 15 4.

“Nothing that had happened” Thuc 4 40 1.

“For everyone that’s here” Ari Kni—Sommerstein, p. 73.

two thousand able and troublesome helots Thuc 4 80 3–4.

“He quietly observed the movements” Plat Symp 221b. This quotation is taken from Plato’s Symposium, which makes no claim to historical accuracy, but rather to imaginative verisimilitude. The anecdote, well known in the retelling and easily checked by contemporaries, is surely true.

rode alongside Socrates Plut Alc 7 4.

18. THE MAN WHO KNEW NOTHING

Plato’s Symposium, cited passim, is a main source (usually, but not always in the translation of Walter Hamilton, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England, 1951), and secondarily Xenophon’s Symposium and Memorabilia.

“Kissing Agathon” Gr Anth 5 78.

“As you sip your wine”

Cited in Garland, p. 94. I am indebted to Professor Garland for information about food and drink in ancient Greece.

“Let us entertain ourselves today” Plato Symp 177D.

“used all their eight limbs” Ibid., 190A.

“They will walk upright” Ibid., 190D.

“love is simply the name” Ibid., 192E.

“I am walking on air” Ar Clo 225.

“The Clouds are the only goddesses” Ibid., 365–67.

“Both Homer and Hesiod” Xenophanes, DK 22 B 12.

“permanent entity was water” Arist Met 1 983b.

“applied themselves to mathematics” Ibid., 1 985b.

“You cannot step” Fragment DK 22 B 12, quoted in Arius Didymus apud Eusebius, Preparatio Evangelica 15:20:2.

“The barley drink” DK 22 B 125, quoted in Theophrastus On Vertigo 9.

“The bit I understand is excellent” Diog Laer 2 5 22.

“is generated from fire” Ibid., 9 1 8.