[Meaning] the [habit of ] delaying and deferring. Aristophanes [writes]: "it is not the time for us to doze, or to dither like Nikias". For[1] Nikias the son of Alkibiades[2] [was the man] who kept putting off his departure for Sicily.[3] For he was slow in the matter of his expeditions, and, according to his detractors, not a cautious man but a procrastinator. Rather, it is [sc. sometimes] necessary to do something as quickly as possible.