And in my opinion, if the oracle proved true, it was in the opposite sense to what was expected.

For the misfortunes of the state did not arise from the unlawful occupation, but the necessity of the occupation from the war; and though the god did not mention this, he foresaw that it would be an evil day for Athens in which the plot came to be inhabited.

Many also took up their quarters in the towers of the walls or wherever else they could.

For when they were all come in, the city proved too small to hold them; though afterwards they divided the Long Walls and a great part of Piraeus into lots and settled there.

All this while great attention was being given to the war; the allies were being mustered, and an armament of a hundred ships equipped for Peloponnese.