Thucydides: Essay on inscriptions and Books I-III

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Page 114 - and the delight which we daily feel in all these things helps to banish melancholy. Because of the greatness of our city the fruits of the whole earth flow in upon us ; so that we enjoy the goods of other countries as freely as of our own.
Page 114 - him. We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands. And in the matter of education, whereas they from early youth are always undergoing laborious exercises which are to make them brave, we live at ease, and yet are equally
Page 125 - When one man had raised a funeral pile, others would come, and throwing on their dead first, set fire to it ; or when some other corpse was already burning, before they could be stopped, would throw their own dead upon it and depart. General violation of ancient customs of
Page 117 - 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 true measure of a man's worth ; it may be the first revelation of his virtues, but is at any rate their final seal. For
Page 193 - Dullness and modesty are a more useful combination than cleverness and licence ; and the more simple sort generally make better citizens than the more astute. For the latter desire to be thought wiser than the laws'; they want to be always getting their own way in public discussions ; they think that they can
Page 85 - a thing to be cultivated by the way or at chance times ; it is jealous of any other pursuit which distracts the mind for an instant from itself. 'Suppose, again, that they lay hands on the treasures 143 at Olympia and Delphi, and tempt our mercenary sailors with the offer of higher pay
Page 198 - give up your empire, and, when virtue is no longer dangerous, you may be as virtuous as you please. Punish them as they would have punished you ; let not those who have escaped appear to have less feeling than those who conspired against them. Consider : what might not they have been expected to
Page 100 - A great city thus arose which was handed down by Theseus to his descendants, and from his day to this the Athenians have regularly celebrated the national festival of the Synoecia, or 'union of the communes' in honour of the Goddess Athene. Before his time, what is now the Acropolis and the Small
Page 112 - should be given at their burial to the dead who have fallen on the field of battle. But I should have preferred that, when men's deeds have been brave, they should be honoured in deed only, and with such an honour as this public funeral, which you are now witnessing. Then the reputation of many would
Page 22 - and then the Corcyraeans, as it was getting dark, likewise retired, and the Corinthians turned about and sailed away. Thus the two fleets separated after a battle which lasted until nightfall. The twenty ships which came from Athens under the command of Glaucon the son of Leagrus, and Andocides the son of

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