Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
chapter:
chapter 1chapter 2chapter 3chapter 4chapter 5chapter 6chapter 7chapter 8chapter 9chapter 10chapter 11chapter 12chapter 13chapter 14chapter 15chapter 16chapter 17chapter 18chapter 19chapter 20chapter 21chapter 22chapter 23chapter 24chapter 25chapter 26chapter 27chapter 28chapter 29chapter 30chapter 31chapter 32chapter 33chapter 34chapter 35chapter 36chapter 37chapter 38chapter 39chapter 40chapter 41chapter 42chapter 43chapter 44chapter 45chapter 46chapter 47chapter 48chapter 49chapter 50chapter 51chapter 52chapter 53chapter 54chapter 55chapter 56chapter 57chapter 58chapter 59chapter 60chapter 61chapter 62chapter 63chapter 64chapter 65chapter 66chapter 67chapter 68chapter 69chapter 70chapter 71chapter 72chapter 73chapter 74chapter 75chapter 76chapter 77chapter 78chapter 79chapter 80chapter 81chapter 82chapter 83chapter 84chapter 85chapter 86chapter 87chapter 88chapter 89chapter 90chapter 91chapter 92chapter 93chapter 94chapter 95chapter 96chapter 97chapter 98chapter 99chapter 100chapter 101chapter 102chapter 103chapter 104chapter 105chapter 106chapter 107chapter 108chapter 109chapter 110chapter 111chapter 112chapter 113chapter 114chapter 115chapter 116chapter 117chapter 118chapter 119chapter 120chapter 121chapter 122chapter 123chapter 124chapter 125chapter 126chapter 127chapter 128chapter 129chapter 130chapter 131chapter 132chapter 133chapter 134chapter 135
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
62.
So far as regards the Athenians such are the
great advantages proved inherent in a wise policy.
[2]
Independently of this, in the face of the universal consent that peace is
the first of blessings, how can we refuse to make it amongst ourselves; or do you not think that the good which you have, and the ills that you
complain of, would be better preserved and cured by quiet than by war; that peace has its honours and splendours of a less perilous kind, not to
mention the numerous other blessings that one might dilate on, with the not
less numerous miseries of war?
These considerations should teach you not to disregard my words, but rather
to look in them every one for his own safety.
[3]
If there be any here who feels certain either by right or might to effect
his object, let not this surprise be to him too severe a disappointment.
Let him remember that many before now have tried to chastise a wrongdoer,
and failing to punish their enemy have not even saved themselves; while many who have trusted in force to gain an advantage, instead of
gaining anything more, have been doomed to lose what they had.
[4]
Vengeance is not necessarily successful because wrong has been done, or
strength sure because it is confident; but the incalculable element in the future exercises the widest influence,
and is the most treacherous, and yet in fact the most useful of all things,
as it frightens us all equally, and thus makes us consider before attacking
each other.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
show
Browse Bar
hide
Places (automatically extracted)
View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.
Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.
hide
References (21 total)
- Commentary references to this page (5):
- Cross-references to this page
(4):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PARTICLES
- Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache, Von den Adjektiven und Participien insbesondere.
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.1.1
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.3
- Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page
(12):
- LSJ, ἀστάθμ-ητος
- LSJ, λαμπρότης
- LSJ, μέτειμι
- LSJ, μῆκος
- LSJ, ὅσος
- LSJ, ὁμολογ-έω
- LSJ, πλεονεκτ-έω
- LSJ, προμήθ-εια
- LSJ, προσκατα-λείπω
- LSJ, σφα^λερός
- LSJ, συνδια-σῴζω
- LSJ, ὑπερορ-άω
hide
Search
hideStable Identifiers
hide
Display Preferences