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.
and such men must either, the first day they land, be at once masters of the country, or know that if they fail to do so, they will find every thing opposed to them.