What befalls the Athenians in Sicily therefore fulfills the desperate prediction of the Melians: "We know that in war fortune sometimes makes the odds more level than could be expected".
1.43pm: OK so, seeing as I haven't got a dart to throw at the field amnd you're desperate for another prediction, I've asked my colleague Jacob Steinberg, who knows nothing about cycling, to pick a random number between 1-219.
They factored in the voting histories of the counties to be tallied and punched numbers into calculators, desperate for an accurate prediction.
I love the constant polls and predictions, measuring the desperate efforts to slide ahead by even a few points.
A Vote Leave spokesman said: "As support drains away from the Remain campaign, they are getting ever more desperate and hysterical with their fanciful Leave predictions.
This was a domain where the emerging Standard Model of particle physics was predicting a rich seam of new particles and was in desperate need of experimental input to back up its predictions.
By early Saturday, with predictions for Katrina becoming increasingly dire, Blanco had launched a desperate effort to persuade New Orleanians to evacuate ahead of the storm, memos show.
His prediction now looks like it was a desperate attempt to alleviate the pressure on him.
My prediction is that he's going to get really desperate, and he's going to get really ugly before he gives up.
