These findings all have important i

These findings all have important implications for our understanding of what Thucydides says at 1.23.5-6. Raphael Sealey remarks that Thucydides' words in Greek at 1.23.5-6 do not focus on an impersonal interstate process; rather, they focus directlytheir actions. Sealey translates as follows:As to why they broke the treaty, I have written down first the complaints and the disputes, so that no one may ever inquire whence so great a war arose among the Greeks. Now the most genuine cause, though least spoken of, was this: it was the Athenians, in my opinion, as they were growing great and furnishing an occasion of fear to the Lacedaemonian, who compelled the latter to go to war. But the complaints of each side, spoken of openly, were the following, complaints which led the parties to break the treaty and enter a state of war.