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97. Ath. ‘Why not? For they think they have reason on their side, both the one sort and the other, and that such as are subdued are subdued by force, and such as are forborne are so through our fear. So that by subduing you, besides the extending of our dominion over so many more subjects, we shall assure it the more over those we had before, especially being masters of the sea, and you islanders, and weaker (except you can get the victory) than others whom we have subdued already.’

The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.

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    • W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 2.251
    • Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.95
    • Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.98
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    • Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.41
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