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37.
‘These Corcyraeans in the speech we
have just heard do not confine themselves to the question of their reception
into your alliance. They also talk of our being guilty of injustice, and their being the
victims of an unjustifiable war. It becomes necessary for us to touch upon both these points before we
proceed to the rest of what we have to say, that you may have a more correct
idea of the grounds of our claim, and have good cause to reject their
petition.
[2]
According to them, their old policy of refusing all offers of alliance was
a policy of moderation.
It was in fact adopted for bad ends, not for good; indeed their conduct is such as to make them by no means desirous of having
allies present to witness it, or of having the shame of asking their
concurrence.
[3]
Besides, their geographical situation makes them independent of others, and
consequently the decision in cases where they injure any lies not with
judges appointed by mutual agreement, but with themselves, because while
they seldom make voyages to their neighbors, they are constantly being
visited by foreign vessels which are compelled to put in to Corcyra.
[4]
In short, the object that they propose to themselves in their specious
policy of complete isolation, is not to avoid sharing in the crimes of
others, but to secure a monopoly of crime to themselves,—the
license of outrage wherever they can compel, of fraud wherever they can
elude, and the enjoyment of their gains without shame.
[5]
And yet if they were the honest men they pretend to be, the less hold that
others had upon them, the stronger would be the light in which they might
have put their honesty by giving and taking what was just.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, 39
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 141
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.2
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators, 4.168
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 3.61
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 6.82
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