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to later charges that accompany the
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peloponnesian invasion in 431.
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Reporting that his enemies, Pericles' enemies,
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Threatened and denounced him and choruses sang mocking songs
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to his shame, and insulted his generalship for
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its cowardice and for abandoning everything to the enemy.
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The peloponnesians,
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Plutarch tells us,
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expected the Athenians to fight out of anger and pride.
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But to Pericles,
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it appeared terrible to fight a battle against
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60,000 peloponnesian and boeotian hoplites,