PELOPONNESIAN WAR • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Peloponnesian War

... learned, as Juliet tells her nurse, 'from one we danc'd withal'), instanter it was redressed and trimmed by some renegade going over to the suffering side. People talk of Athens being beaten by the Spartans in the person of Lysander; and the vulgar notion is, that the Peloponnesian war closed by an eclipse total and central for our poor friend Athens. Nonsense! she had life left in her to kick twenty such donkeys to death; and, if you look a very little ahead, gazettes tell you, that before the peace ...

— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey