History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Thucydides. The history of the Peloponnesian War, Volume 1-2. Dale, Henry, translator. London: Heinemann and Henry G. Bohn, 1851-1852.

but as it was, from the part in which they then were they would not, if they could help it, retire; as they considered that it belonged to them.