110.
Mel. ‘Yea, but they may have others to send;
and the Cretic sea is wide, wherein to take another is harder for him that is master of it than it is for him that will steal by to save himself.
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And if this course fail, they may turn their arms against your own territory or those of your confederates not invaded by Brasidas.
And then you shall have to trouble yourselves no more about a territory that you have nothing to do withal, but about your own and your confederates.’
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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