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grbs-17094	Pinto, Massimo	Thucydides 4.92.5: A Quotation from Sophocles’ Philoctetes?	2025	12	.pdf	application/pdf	4671	182	61	23 Sophocles’ parallel was simply mentioned in 19th-century commentaries on Thucydides: S. T. Bloomfield, The History of Thucydides II (London 1829) 342; K. W. Krüger, Θουκυδίδου Συγγραφή I.2 (Berlin 1846) 202 MASSIMO PINTO 345 ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 65 (2025) 343–354 objective is the destruction of Boeotia (4.92.1, τὴν γὰρ Βοιωτίαν … µέλλουσι φθείρειν) and the enslavement of all Greeks (4.92.4, µὴ τοὺς ἐγγύς, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἄπωθεν πειρῶνται δουλοῦσθαι).5 According to Thucydides, however, the core argument of Pa- gondas’ speech was as follows: if the Boeotians decide against the assault, the Athenians will unleash their usual predatory violence (4.92.4, ἐσελθόντες γὰρ βίᾳ τὰ ἡµέτερα ἕξουσιν); on the other hand, an unexpected attack on the very edge of the aggressors’ land would cause the latter serious difficulty and give the Boe- otians a chance to win (4.92.5).	cache/grbs-17094.pdf	txt/grbs-17094.txt