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Often appears with: tribute and fleets · themistocles · naval warfare and sea power · naval power · empire building · empire and the rule of provinces · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: speech or oration (1) · ambition and its cost (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
Athens argues that its ships, Themistocles, and uncompromising patriotism secured the Hellenic fleet’s success, and that keeping an empire was driven by fear, later by honor and interest.
invader himself. Defeated at sea, he considered his power to be no longer what it had been, and retired as speedily as possible with the greater part of his army. “Such, then, was the result of the matter, and it was clearly proved that it was on the fleet of Hellas that her cause depended. Well, to this result we contributed three very useful elements, viz., the largest number of ships, the ablest commander, and th…