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17.
‘Athenians, the Lacedaemonians sent
us to try to find some way of settling the affair of our men on the island,
that shall be at once satisfactory to your interests, and as consistent with
our dignity in our misfortune as circumstances permit.
[2]
We can venture to speak at some length without any departure from the habit
of our country.
Men of few words where many are not wanted, we can be less brief when there
is a matter of importance to be illustrated and an end to be served by its
illustration.
[3]
Meanwhile we beg you to take what we may say, not in a hostile spirit, nor
as if we thought you ignorant and wished to lecture you, but rather as a
suggestion on the best course to be taken, addressed to intelligent judges.
[4]
You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as
to keep what you have got and gain honor and reputation besides, and you can
avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good
fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further,
through having already succeeded without expecting it.
[5]
While those who have known most vicissitudes of good and bad, have also
justly least faith in their prosperity; and to teach your city and ours this lesson experience has not been
wanting.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax, 537
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 214
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.87
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.34
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- Gilbert A. Davies, Commentary on Demosthenes: Philippics I, II, III, 42
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.76
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.1.1
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.4
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.pos=7.6
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Cross-references in notes to this page
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 4.126
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 4.95
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 5.69
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