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144.
I have many other reasons to hope for a
favorable issue, if you can consent not to combine schemes of fresh conquest
with the conduct of the war, and will abstain from willfully involving
yourselves in other dangers; indeed, I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.
[2]
But these matters shall be explained in another speech, as events require; for the present dismiss these men with the answer that we allow Megara the
use of our market and harbours, when the Lacedaemonians suspend their alien
acts in favour of us and our allies, there being nothing in the treaty to
prevent either one or the other: that we will leave the cities independent,
if independent we found them when we made the treaty, and when the
Lacedaemonians grant to their cities an independence not involving
subservience to Lacedaemonian interest, but such as each severally may
desire: that we are willing to give the legal satisfaction which our
agreements specify, and that we shall not commence hostilities, but shall
resist those who do commence them.
This is an answer agreeable at once to the rights and the dignity of
Athens.
[3]
It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity; but that the more readily we accept it, the less will be the ardour of our
opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals
acquire the greatest glory.
[4]
Did not our fathers resist the Medes not only with resources far different
from ours, but even when those resources had been abandoned; and more by wisdom than by fortune, more by daring than by strength, did
not they beat off the barbarian and advance their affairs to their present
height?
We must not fall behind them, but must resist our enemies in any way and in
every way, and attempt to hand down our power to our posterity
unimpaired.’
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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