History of the Peloponnesian War

Him therefore they sent general no more, but Dorcis, and some others with him, with no great army, whose command the confederates refused;

and they, finding that, went their ways likewise. And after that the Lacedaemonians sent no more, because they feared lest such as went out would prove the worse for the state, as they had seen by Pausanias, and also because they desired to be rid of the Persian war, conceiving the Athenians to be sufficient leaders and at that time their friends.