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78.
Take time then in forming your resolution, as
the matter is of great importance; and do not be persuaded by the opinions and complaints of others to bring
trouble on yourselves, but consider the vast influence of accident in war,
before you are engaged in it.
[2]
As it continues, it generally becomes an affair of chances, chances from
which neither of us is exempt, and whose event we must risk in the dark.
[3]
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act
first, and wait for disaster to discuss the matter.
[4]
But we are not yet by any means so misguided, nor, so far as we can see,
are you; accordingly, while it is still open to us both to choose aright, we bid you
not to dissolve the treaty, or to break your oaths, but to have our
differences settled by arbitration according to our agreement.
Or else we take the gods who heard the oaths to witness, and if you begin
hostilities, whatever line of action you choose, we will try not to be
behindhand in repelling you.’
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 294
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.61
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.33
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXVIII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXXII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XVIII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XCVIII
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.6.1
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 1.140
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 7.18
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