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Excerpt from The History of Greece, Vol. 4 The first emotions of grief were accompanied by bitter reections on the past, under which the people sought relief by throwing the blame on the orators who had counselled the ill-starred expedition - as if it had not been impelled by its own ambition and cupidity and on the soothsayers who had promised a happy issue - as if their predictions might not have been fulfilled, if it had not blindly deprived itself of the services of the man who was best fitted for conducting the enter prise, or had'placed less confidence in a general who was unequal to his station. But recrimination and re gret were speedily stied by the magnitude of the im pending danger. The victorious enemy might soon he expected from Sicily before Piraaus, while the Pelo ponnesians prosecuted the war with renewed ardour and redoubled forces both by sea and land, aided by the re volted subjects of the commonwealth. And there were neither troops, on the muster-rolls, nor ships and stores in the arsenals, to replace what had been lost. The treasury was drained, and most of the 'sources from which it had hitherto been supplied were now likely to fail. On every side the prospect was gloomy, no less than the retrospect was painful; yet, though scarcely a ray of hope was visible, the strong heart of the people, which had sustained it in so many desperate conicts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally