Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, BOOK V, chapter 95

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95. Ath. 'No, your enmity is not half so mischievous to us as your friendship; for the one is in¹ the eyes of our subjects an argument of our power, the other of our weakness.'

1 Our subjects would not understand that.

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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