For a city consists of men, and not of walls nor ships empty of men.
Quoted in History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
Speech to the defeated Athenian army at Syracuse, 413 BC.
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Original Citation
Nicias. Quoted in History of the Pelopponesian War, written by Thucydides. c. 405 BC, bk. 7.
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Current Citation
Nicias. Quoted in History of the Pelopponesian War, written by Thucydides, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 7.
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