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but instead to employ the technique of deterrence.
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Now, the decision to send only ten was debatable.
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After those ten had been sent the question
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was raised again in the Athenian assembly,
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obviously by people who didn't agree with Pericles' approach,
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who insisted that there should be a larger fleet sent,
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and Pericles apparently could not
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prevent them sending some more ships,
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but the most they could get a vote
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for was twenty more ships.
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So, now there's a second Athenian detachment
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that is sent some days after