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Saturday, September 10, 2022
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Kenneth Dover, The Greeks, 3rd ed. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989), p. 32:
We call it the 'Sicilian Disaster', which befell the 'Sicilian Expedition'. Looked at from the other end, we could call it the 'Syracusan Triumph', which ended the 'Athenian Invasion'.