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46.
We must not, therefore, commit ourselves to a
false policy through a belief in the efficacy of the punishment of death, or
exclude rebels from the hope of repentance and an early atonement of their
error.
[2]
Consider a moment!
At present, if a city that has already revolted perceive that it cannot
succeed, it will come to terms while it is still able to refund expenses,
and pay tribute afterwards.
In the other case, what city think you would not prepare better than is now
done, and hold out to the last against its besiegers, if it is all one
whether it surrender late or soon?
[3]
And how can it be otherwise than hurtful to us to be put to the expense of
a siege, because surrender is out of the question; and if we take the city, to receive a ruined town from which we can no
longer draw the revenue which forms our real strength against the enemy?
[4]
We must not, therefore, sit as strict judges of the offenders to our own
prejudice, but rather see how by moderate chastisements we may be enabled to
benefit in future by the revenue-producing powers of our dependencies; and we must make up our minds to look for our protection not to legal
terrors but to careful administration.
[5]
At present we do exactly the opposite.
When a free community, held in subjection by force, rises, as is only
natural, and asserts its independence, it is no sooner reduced than we fancy
ourselves obliged to punish it severely;
[6]
although the right course with freemen is not to chastise them rigorously
when they do rise, but rigorously to watch them before they rise, and to
prevent their ever entertaining the idea, and, the insurrection suppressed,
to make as few responsible for it as possible.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 1224
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.70
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.103
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.10
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- Cross-references to this page
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.1
- 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 IV
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(1):
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 3.39
- Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page
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- LSJ, ἀκρι_β-ής
- LSJ, ἀνέλπιστ-ος
- LSJ, ἀσύμ-βα^τος
- LSJ, αὐτονομ-ία
- LSJ, δεινότης
- LSJ, ἔσχα^τος
- LSJ, ἐκεῖνος
- LSJ, ἐπίνοια
- LSJ, ἐπιμέλ-εια
- LSJ, ἐχέγγυ^ος
- LSJ, ἰσχ-ύω
- LSJ, λόγος
- LSJ, οὐ
- LSJ, παρατείνω
- LSJ, προκατα-λαμβάνω
- LSJ, σφόδρ-α^
- LSJ, σχολή
- LSJ, τείνω
- LSJ, ὑποτελ-έω
- LSJ, χαλεπ-ός
- LSJ, χείρων
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