most of them being ignorant of its size and of the number of its inhabitants, Hellenic and barbarian, and of the fact that they were undertaking a war not much inferior to that against the Peloponnesians.
Izan ere, merkantzi ontzi batek zortzi egun baino ez asko gutxiago behar du Sizilia inguratzeko, eta uharte hori, hain handia izan arren, hogei estadioko itsasarteak baino ez du bereizten kontinentetik.