Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
chapter:
chapter 1chapter 2chapter 3chapter 4chapter 5chapter 6chapter 7chapter 8chapter 9chapter 10chapter 11chapter 12chapter 13chapter 14chapter 15chapter 16chapter 17chapter 18chapter 19chapter 20chapter 21chapter 22chapter 23chapter 24chapter 25chapter 26chapter 27chapter 28chapter 29chapter 30chapter 31chapter 32chapter 33chapter 34chapter 35chapter 36chapter 37chapter 38chapter 39chapter 40chapter 41chapter 42chapter 43chapter 44chapter 45chapter 46chapter 47chapter 48chapter 49chapter 50chapter 51chapter 52chapter 53chapter 54chapter 55chapter 56chapter 57chapter 58chapter 59chapter 60chapter 61chapter 62chapter 63chapter 64chapter 65chapter 66chapter 67chapter 68chapter 69chapter 70chapter 71chapter 72chapter 73chapter 74chapter 75chapter 76chapter 77chapter 78chapter 79chapter 80chapter 81chapter 82chapter 83chapter 84chapter 85chapter 86chapter 87chapter 88chapter 89chapter 90chapter 91chapter 92chapter 93chapter 94chapter 95chapter 96chapter 97chapter 98chapter 99chapter 100chapter 101chapter 102chapter 103chapter 104chapter 105chapter 106chapter 107chapter 108chapter 109chapter 110chapter 111chapter 112chapter 113chapter 114chapter 115chapter 116chapter 117chapter 118chapter 119chapter 120chapter 121chapter 122chapter 123chapter 124chapter 125chapter 126chapter 127chapter 128chapter 129chapter 130chapter 131chapter 132chapter 133chapter 134chapter 135chapter 136chapter 137chapter 138chapter 139chapter 140chapter 141chapter 142chapter 143chapter 144chapter 145chapter 146
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
76.
You, at all events, Lacedaemonians, have used
your supremacy to settle the states in Peloponnese as is agreeable to you.
And if at the period of which we were speaking you had persevered to the
end of the matter, and had incurred hatred in your command, we are sure that
you would have made yourselves just as galling to the allies, and would have
been forced to choose between a strong government and danger to yourselves.
[2]
It follows that it was not a very wonderful action, or contrary to the
common practice of mankind, if we did accept an empire that was offered to
us, and refused to give it up under the pressure of three of the strongest
motives, fear, honor, and interest.
And it was not we who set the example, for it has always been the law that
the weaker should be subject to the stronger.
Besides, we believed ourselves to be worthy of our position, and so you
thought us till now, when calculations of interest have made you take up the
cry of justice—a consideration which no one ever yet brought
forward to hinder his ambition when he had a chance of gaining anything by
might.
[3]
And praise is due to all who, if not so superior to human nature as to
refuse dominion, yet respect justice more than their position compels them
to do.
[4]
We imagine that our moderation would be best
demonstrated by the conduct of others who should be placed in our position; but even our equity has very unreasonably subjected us to condemnation
instead of approval.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
show
Browse Bar
hide
Places (automatically extracted)
View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.
Sort places
alphabetically,
as they appear on the page,
by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Peloponnesus (Greece) (1)Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.
hide
References (44 total)
- Commentary references to this page
(11):
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.13
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.71
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXIV
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XIX
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LX
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXI
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXXXVI
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XCV
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.60
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.61
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.89
- Cross-references to this page
(10):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PREPOSITIONS
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, NEGATIVE SENTENCES
- 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
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.3
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.6.1
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter III
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
- Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page
(23):
- LSJ, ἄξιος
- LSJ, ἄν
- LSJ, ἀδοξ-ία
- LSJ, ἀνίημι
- LSJ, ἀπό
- LSJ, δείκνυμι
- LSJ, δίκαιος
- LSJ, δοκέω
- LSJ, ἐξηγ-έομαι
- LSJ, ἐγκρατ-ής
- LSJ, φύσις
- LSJ, γοῦν
- LSJ, καθίστημι
- LSJ, κατείργω
- LSJ, λογ-ίζομαι
- LSJ, λυ_π-ηρός
- LSJ, μετρι-άζω
- LSJ, μή
- LSJ, παρατυγχάνω
- LSJ, περιίστημι
- LSJ, τοιοῦτος
- LSJ, τρόπος
- LSJ, ὠφέλ-ι^μος
hide
Search
hideStable Identifiers
hide
Display Preferences