Thucydides, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1881 |
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Acarnanians afterwards Alcibiades alliance allies Ambraciots Argives Argos arms army arrived Astyochus Athe Athenian ships Athenians Athens attack Attica Barbarian battle blockade Boeotians Brasidas cavalry Chalcidians Chians Chios citizens Cleon coast command Corcyra Corcyraeans Corinth Corinthians cusans daemonians danger Decelea defeated Demosthenes enemy envoys Euboea expedition fear fight fleet force friends garrison Gylippus hands harbour Hellas Hellenes honour hope hoplites hundred inhabitants init island join King Lace Lacedae Lacedaemon Lacedaemonians land Lesbos Mantineans Megara Megarians Miletus Mitylenaeans Mitylenè monians Naupactus nesians nians Nicias Nisaea oligarchy once ourselves party peace Pelopon Peloponnesians Peloponnesus Perdiccas Persian Piraeus Plataeans ponnesians Potidaea Pylos ravaged retreat returned revolt sailed Samos sent Sicels Sicilian Sicily side Sitalces soldiers Sparta Syra Syracusans Syracuse temple territory Thebans thought Thucydides tion Tissaphernes took treaty triremes troops truce vessels victory VIII wall whole
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Page 118 - And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages; we shall not need the praises of Homer or of any other panegyrist whose poetry may please for the moment
Page 547 - this was the greatest — the most glorious to the victors, the most ruinous to the vanquished ; for they were utterly and at all points defeated, and their sufferings were prodigious. Fleet and army perished from the face of the earth ; nothing was saved, and of the many who went forth few returned home.
Page 221 - neither party observing any definite limits either of justice or public expediency, but both alike making the caprice of the moment their law. Either by the help of an unrighteous sentence, or grasping power with the strong hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party-spirit. Neither faction cared for religion ; but any fair pretence
Page 120 - and the noblest of all sepulchres — I speak not of that in which their remains are laid, but of that in which their glory survives, and is proclaimed always and on every fitting occasion both in word and deed. For the whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men
Page 221 - constitutional equality of the many, the other the wisdom of an aristocracy, while they made the public interests, to which in name they were devoted, in reality their prize. Striving in every way to overcome each other, they committed the most monstrous crimes; yet even these were surpassed by the magnitude of their revenges which they pursued to the very utmost
Page 221 - The seal of good faith was not divine law, but fellowship in crime. If an enemy when he was in the ascendant offered fair words, the opposite party received them not in a generous spirit, * but by a jealous watchfulness of his actions
Page 401 - This law was not made by us, and we are not the first who have acted upon it ; we did but inherit it, and shall bequeath it to all time, and we know that you and all
Page 13 - purport of what was actually said. Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak from any chance information, nor according to any notion of my own ; I have described nothing but what I
Page 222 - which succeeded in effecting some odious purpose was greatly lauded. And the citizens who were of neither party fell a prey to both; either they were disliked because they held aloof, or men were jealous of their surviving.
Page 123 - of nature, every man, whether a physician or not, will give his own opinion. But I shall describe its actual course, and the symptoms by which any one who knows them beforehand may recognise the disorder should it ever reappear. For I was myself attacked, and witnessed the sufferings of others. The season was admitted to have been remarkably free