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 defeated Demosthenes Eleans 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 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 110 - And we have not forgotten to provide for our weary spirits many relaxations from toil; we have regular games and sacrifices throughout the year; at home the style of our life is refined ; and the delight which we daily feel in all these things helps to banish melancholy. Because of the greatness of our city the fruits
Page 112 - although his representation of the facts will not bear the light of day. For we have compelled every land and every sea to open a path for our valour, and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship and of our enmity. Such is the city for whose sake these men nobly fought and died ; they could not
Page 112 - 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 215 - 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 109 - to power, and under what institutions and through what manner of life our empire became great. For I conceive that such thoughts are not unsuited to the occasion, and that this numerous assembly of citizens and strangers may profitably listen to them. 'Our form of government does not enter into rivalry
Page 547 - 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 37 - they were born neither to have peace themselves nor to allow peace to other men, he would simply speak the truth. ' In the face of such an enemy, Lacedaemonians, you persist in doing nothing. You do not see that peace is best secured by those who use their strength justly, but' whose attitude shows that they have no intention of
Page 113 - been already spoken. For in magnifying the city I have magnified them, and men like them whose virtues made her glorious. And of how few Hellenes can it be said as of them, that their deeds when weighed in the balance have been found equal to their fame! Methinks that a death such as theirs has been gives the
Page 117 - 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.
Page 213 - the whole Hellenic world was in commotion; in every city the chiefs of the democracy and of the oligarchy were struggling, the one to bring in the Athenians, the other the Lacedaemonians. Now in time of peace, men would have had no excuse for introducing either, and no desire to do so, but when they were at war