[435] Thucyd. vii, 37, 38.
[436] Plutarch, Nikias, c. 20. Diodorus (xiii, 10) represents the battle as having been brought on against the wish and intention of the Athenians generally, not alluding to any difference of opinion among the commanders.
[437] Thucyd. vii, 41. αἱ κεραῖαι δελφινοφόροι: compare Pollux, i, 85, and Fragment vi, of the comedy of the poet Pherekratês, entitled Ἄγριοι; Meineke, Fragm. Comic. Græc. vol. ii, p. 258, and the Scholiast. ad Aristoph. Equit. 759.
[438] Thucyd. vii, 40. Οἱ δ’ Ἀθηναῖοι, νομίσαντες αὐτοὺς ὡς ἡσσημένους σφῶν πρὸς τὴν πόλιν ἀνακρούσασθαι, etc.
[439] Thucyd. vii, 40.
[440] Thucyd. vii, 41.
[441] Thucyd. vii, 42.
[442] Thucyd. vii, 33-57.
[443] Thucyd. vii, 35.
[444] Plutarch, Nikias, c. 21.