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68.
‘Lacedaemonians! the confidence
which you feel in your constitution and social order, inclines you to
receive any reflections of ours on other powers with a certain skepticism.
Hence springs your moderation, but hence also the rather limited knowledge
which you betray in dealing with foreign politics.
[2]
Time after time was our voice raised to warn you of the blows about to be
dealt us by Athens, and time after time, instead of taking the trouble to
ascertain the worth of our communications, you contented yourselves with
suspecting the speakers of being inspired by private interest.
And so, instead of calling these allies together before the blow fell, you
have delayed to do so till we are smarting under it; allies among whom we have not the worst title to speak, as having the
greatest complaints to make, complaints of Athenian outrage and
Lacedaemonian neglect.
[3]
Now if these assaults on the rights of Hellas had been made in the dark you
might be unacquainted with the facts, and it would be our duty to enlighten
you.
As it is, long speeches are not needed where you see servitude accomplished
for some of us, meditated for others—in particular for our
allies—and prolonged preparations in the aggressor against the
hour of war.
[4]
Or what, pray, is the meaning of their reception of Corcyra by fraud, and
their holding it against us by force? what of the siege of
Potidaea?—places one of which lies most conveniently for any
action against the Thracian towns; while the other would have contributed a very large navy to the
Peloponnesians?
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 263
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
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- LSJ, ἀφα^ν-ής
- LSJ, ἀμελ-έω
- LSJ, ἀποχράω
- LSJ, διάφορ-ος
- LSJ, ἔξω
- LSJ, ἐκ
- LSJ, ἐπίκαιρ-ος
- LSJ, καθίστημι
- LSJ, μάθ-ησις
- LSJ, μακρ-ηγορέω
- LSJ, ὁμι_λ-ία
- LSJ, οὐ
- LSJ, πιστός
- LSJ, πολεμέω
- LSJ, προα^γορ-εύω
- LSJ, προπαρασκευ-άζω
- LSJ, προσδέω
- LSJ, ὑπονο-έω
- LSJ, χράω
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