Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, BOOK V, chapter 88

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88. Mel. 'It is an excusable and natural thing that men in our position should neglect no argument¹ and no view which may avail. But we admit that this conference has met to consider the question of our preservation; and therefore let the argument proceed in the manner which you propose.'

1 It must be as you, and not as we, please.

Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.

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