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64.
Meanwhile, after thus plainly showing that it
was not for the sake of the Hellenes that you alone then did not Medise, but
because the Athenians did not do so either, and you wished to side with them
and to be against the rest;
[2]
you now claim the benefit of good deeds done to please your neighbors.
This cannot be admitted: you chose the Athenians, and with them you must
stand or fall.
Nor can you plead the league then made and claim that it should now protect
you.
[3]
You abandoned that league, and offended against it by helping instead of
hindering the subjugation of the Aeginetans and others of its members, and
that not under compulsion, but while in enjoyment of the same institutions
that you enjoy to the present hour, and no one forcing you as in our case.
Lastly, an invitation was addressed to you before you were blockaded to be
neutral and join neither party: this you did not accept.
[4]
Who then merit the detestation of the Hellenes more justly than you, you
who sought their ruin under the mask of honor?
The former virtues that you allege you now show not to be proper to your
character; the real bent of your nature has been at length damningly proved: when the
Athenians took the path of injustice you followed them.
[5]
Of our unwilling Medism and your willful
Atticizing this then is our explanation.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, ἐξελ-έγχω
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- LSJ, συγκατα-δουλόω
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