Thucydides: Book I.Ginn, 1887 - 349 pages |
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Page 96 - Therefore the speeches are given in the language in which, as it seemed to me, the several speakers would express, on the subjects under consideration, the sentiments most befitting the occasion, though at the same time I have adhered as closely as possible to the general sense of what was actually said.
Page 169 - And so we have met at last, but with what difficulty! and even now we have no definite object. By this time we ought to have been considering, not whether we are wronged, but how we are to be revenged. The aggressor is not now threatening, but advancing; he has made up his mind, while we are resolved about nothing. And we know too well how by slow degrees and with stealthy steps the Athenians encroach upon their neighbors. While they think that you are too dull to observe them, they are more careful...
Page 351 - PROFESSOR JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE, PH.D., OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, AND PROFESSOR THOMAS D. SEYMOUR, AM, OF YALE COLLEGE, with the cooperation of the scholars whose names are found in the following list, each of whom is responsible for the details of the work in the volume which he edits. The object of this Series is to furnish editions of Greek authors with notes which embody the best results of recent philological research. The plan contemplates complete editions of Homer, Thucydides, and Herodotus, and...
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Page 318 - ... you that you have no right to receive them. Admitting that the treaty allows any unenrolled cities to join either league, this provision does not apply to those who have in view the injury of others, but only to him who is in need of protection — certainly not to one who forsakes his allegiance and who will bring war instead of peace to those who receive him, or rather, if they are wise, will not receive him on such terms.
Page 3 - Péloponnesiaci fuisse quinqué et sexaginta annos natus videtur, Herodotus très et quinquaginta, Thucydides quadraginta. scriptum est hoc in libro undécimo Pamphilae.
Page 199 - ... of the slowness and procrastination with which they are so fond of charging you; if you begin the war in haste, you will end it at your leisure, because you took up arms without sufficient preparation. Remember that we have always been citizens of a free and most illustrious state, and that for us the policy which they condemn may well be the truest good sense and discretion.
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