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grbs-10481	Huxley, George	Nikias, Crete and the Plague	1969	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2156	81	67	The previous silence of Thucydides should not be taken to imply, however, that before 427 B.C. Nikias had not come to the fore in Athenian public life; it may mean only that hitherto Nikias had done nothing that was, in the opinion of Thucydides, worthy of com­ ment. 3 Griechische Geschichte 112 (Gotha 1895) 212-13 n. GEORGE HUXLEY 237 plague, because (a) Nikias was notoriously superstitious, (b) the Spar­ tans had lately renewed the claim that the Kylonian curse was still effective, (c) there was plague in Nikias' time, and Cd) Thucydides mentions ritual to counter the plague.	cache/grbs-10481.pdf	txt/grbs-10481.txt