(b) use of prophasis of the larger

(b) use of prophasis of the larger context and of the process. At 60.1 the Corinthians are ‘fearful for the place and consider the danger their own’ (a description repeated at 67.1): this reaction foreshadows, indeed influences, the eventual Spartan fear that their interests are directly threatened. The same applies to the description of the Aeginetans at 67.2, who ‘did not send an embassy apparently, fearing the Athenians, but secretly drove on the war in company with the Corinthians’. This category too fulfils the programme of 23.4–6 unproblematically.(c) the two editorial passages linking aitiai/diaphorai and prophasis. 88 has already been quoted. At 118 the Spartans, not previously having gone to war, unless pressured to do so (an allusion to the prophasis), decide that the Athenians have clearly become so powerful and are laying hands on their alliance (an allusion to the aitiai), that they must go to war. This category reiterates the overt programme.