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65.
The last wrong of which you complain consists in our having, as you say,
lawlessly invaded your town in time of peace and festival.
Here again we cannot think that we were more in fault than yourselves.
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If of our own proper motion we made an armed attack upon your city and
ravaged your territory, we are guilty; but if the first men among you in estate and family, wishing to put an end
to the foreign connection and to restore you to the common Boeotian country,
of their own free will invited us, wherein is our crime?
Where wrong is done, those who lead, as you say, are more to blame than
those who follow.
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Not that, in our judgment, wrong was done either by them or by us.
Citizens like yourselves, and with more at stake than you, they opened
their own walls and introduced us into their own city, not as foes but as
friends, to prevent the bad among you from becoming worse; to give honest men their due; to reform principles without attacking persons, since you were not to be
banished from your city, but brought home to your kindred, nor to be made
enemies to any, but friends alike to all.
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: Philoctetes, 180
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.2
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.14
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- LSJ, ἀλλοτριόω
- LSJ, ἔνσπονδος
- LSJ, φίλιος
- LSJ, κομίζω
- LSJ, μετα-στα^τικός
- LSJ, οἰκει-όω
- LSJ, παράνομ-ος
- LSJ, παραβάλλω
- LSJ, παρανομ-έω
- LSJ, παύω
- LSJ, πολέμ-ιος
- LSJ, πρότερος
- LSJ, συγγέν-εια
- LSJ, συμμα^χ-ία
- LSJ, σωφρον-ιστής
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