Lacedaemon, on the other hand, found the event of the war to falsify her notion that a few years would suffice for the overthrow of the power of the Athenians by the devastation of their land. She had suffered on the island a disaster hitherto unknown at Sparta;
Gainera, euren aliatuei zegokienez, beldur ziren beren porrotek eraginda areago matxinatuko ez ote ziren, eta damutu egin zitzaien Pilosko gertaeren ostean aukera ona izan zutenean itunik ez egina.