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39.
If we turn to our military policy, there also
we differ from antagonists.
We throw open our city to the world,
and never by alien acts exclude
foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes
of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality; trusting less in system and policy than to the native spirit of our
citizens; while in education, where our rivals from their very cradles by a painful
discipline seek after manliness, at Athens we live exactly as we please, and
yet are just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger.
[2]
In proof of this it may be noticed that
the Lacedaemonians do not invade
our country alone, but bring with them all their confederates; while we Athenians advance unsupported into the territory of a neighbor,
and fighting upon a foreign soil usually vanquish with ease men who are
defending their homes.
[3]
Our united force was never yet encountered by any enemy, because we have at
once to attend to our marine and to despatch our citizens by land upon a
hundred different services; so that, wherever they engage with some such fraction of our strength, a
success against a detachment is magnified into a victory over the nation,
and a defeat into a reverse suffered at the hands of our entire people.
[4]
And yet if with habits not of labor but of ease, and courage not of art but
of nature, we are still willing to encounter danger, we have the double
advantage of escaping the experience of hardships in anticipation and of
facing them in the hour of need as fearlessly as those who are never free
from them.Nor are these the only points in
which our city is worthy of admiration.
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADVERBIAL COMPLEX SENTENCES (2193-2487)
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), METOECUS
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), XENELA´SIA
- 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 VI
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- LSJ, ἄσκ-ησις
- LSJ, ἄτολμ-ος
- LSJ, ἀλγεινός
- LSJ, ἀμύνω
- LSJ, ἀνδρεῖος
- LSJ, ἀνειμένως
- LSJ, ἀπα?́τ-η
- LSJ, ἀπείργω
- LSJ, ἀπωθέω
- LSJ, ἀθρόος
- LSJ, αὐχέω
- LSJ, ξεν-ηλα^σία
- LSJ, διαφέρω
- LSJ, δι^αιτ-άω
- LSJ, ἔρχομαι
- LSJ, ἐπέρχομαι
- LSJ, ἐπίπεμψις
- LSJ, ἐπίπον-ος
- LSJ, ἐπιμέλ-εια
- LSJ, εὔψυ_χ-ος
- LSJ, εὐθύς
- LSJ, γάρ
- LSJ, ἡσσ-άομαι
- LSJ, ἰσο-πα^λής
- LSJ, κίνδυν-ος
- LSJ, μάθ-ημα
- LSJ, μελέτ-η
- LSJ, μετέρχομαι
- LSJ, μόριον
- LSJ, μοχθ-έω
- LSJ, παιδεία
- LSJ, πολεμ-ικός
- LSJ, θαυμ-άζω
- LSJ, θέ-α_μα
- LSJ, ῥα_θυ_μ-ία
- LSJ, τεκμήρι-ον
- LSJ, τρόπος
- LSJ, ὠφελ-έω
- LSJ, ὠθ-έω
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