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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: sailed down to Pherae[12] and ravaged that district, after which he
made successive descents at various other points on the seaboard, and
did what injury he could. But in apprehension of the harbourless
character of the coast, coupled with the enemy's facility of
reinforcement and his own scarcity of supplies, he very soon turned
back and sailed away, until finally he came to moorings in the harbour
of Phoenicus in Cythera. The occupants of the city of the Cytherians,
in terror of being taken by storm, evacuated the walls. To dismiss
these under a flag of truce across to Laconia was his first step; his
second was to repair the fortress in question and to leave a garrison
in the island under an Athenian governor--Nicophemus. After this he
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