We have then, it seems, in chapter

We have then, it seems, in chapter 144. I, advice which Pericles more than once gave the Athenians, advice which Thucydides is naturally content to put in his mouth once and for all 19 but which he, equally naturally, recalls when, in II.65, he contrasts Pericles' strategy with the adventures of his successors. That Pericles distrusted the judgment of the Athenians when he did not guide it, is not to be doubted: it may, indeed, have been one reason why he was reluctant to see the issue of war postponed by concessions