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https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400826797-006/pdf

Thucydides:

[T]he war. . . began when the Athenians andPeloponnesians violated the thirty years’ truceconcluded by them after the recapture of Euboea.Why they broke it and what were the grounds ofthe quarrel I will first set forth, that in time tocome no man may be at loss to know what wasthe origin of this great war. The real thoughunavowed cause I believe to have been thegrowth of the Athenian power, which terrified theLacedaemonians and forced them into war; butthe reasons publicly alleged on either side were asfollows. (1.23)

Polybius, a Greek historian :

“Nothing is  so  essential  either  for  writersor for students of history as to understand the causesunderlying the genesis and development of any series of events.” He stressed equally the need, when dealing with an event suchas a war, to understand the difference between its occasion andbeginning and its true cause.¹