But confidence in the settlement is

But confidence in the settlement is underminded just at the moment of closure: "The sequence of events of the first war over these ten years has now been reported" (5.24.2). A "first war" implies a second. The kinesis of war, we are warned, has not been eliminated and the peace between the two major powers is not secure, nor does it prevent Corinth and some other Peloponnesian cities from trying to disturb the arrangement (5.25.1). We see continuing suspicion between Athens and Sparta, six years and ten months of ill-disguised hostilities, and the eventual repudiation of the treaties and the resumption of open warfare: