History of the Peloponnesian War

Withal, their so many misfortunes in so short a time, falling out so contrary to their own expectation, exceedingly affrighted them.

And fearing lest some such calamity should again happen as they had received in the island, they durst the less to hazard battle, and thought that whatsoever they should go about would miscarry, because their minds, not used formerly to losses, could now warrant them nothing.