54.
Such was the nature of the calamity, and
heavily did it weigh on the Athenians; death raging within the city and devastation without.
[2]
Among other things which they remembered in their distress was, very
naturally, the following verse which the old men said had long ago been
uttered:
“
A Dorian war shall come and with it death.
”
[3]
So a dispute arose as to whether dearth and
not death had not been the word in the verse; but at the present juncture, it was of course decided in favor of the
latter; for the people made their recollection fit in with their sufferings.
I fancy, however, that if another Dorian war should ever afterwards come
upon us, and a dearth should happen to accompany it, the verse will probably
be read accordingly.
[4]
The oracle also which had been given to the Lacedaemonians was now
remembered by those who knew of it.
When the God was asked whether they should go to war, he answered that if
they put their might into it, victory would be theirs, and that he would
himself be with them.
[5]
With this oracle events were supposed to tally.
For the plague broke out so soon as the Peloponnesians invaded Attica, and
never entering Peloponnese (not at least to an extent worth
noticing), committed its worst ravages at Athens, and next to
Athens, at the most populous of the other towns.
Such was the history of the plague.
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