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68.
‘Soldiers, a long exhortation is
little needed by men like ourselves, who are here to fight in the same
battle, the force itself being, to my thinking, more fit to inspire
confidence than a fine speech with a weak army.
[2]
Where we have Argives, Mantineans, Athenians, and the first of the
islanders in the ranks together, it were strange indeed, with so many and so
brave companions in arms, if we did not feel confident of victory; especially when we have mass-levies opposed to our picked troops, and what
is more, Siceliots, who may disdain us but will not stand against us, their
skill not being at all commensurate to their rashness.
[3]
You may also remember that we are far from home and have no friendly land
near, except what your own swords shall win you; and here I put before you a motive just the reverse of that which the enemy
are appealing to; their cry being that they shall fight for their country, mine that we shall
fight for a country that is not ours, where we must conquer or hardly get
away, as we shall have their horse upon us in great numbers.
[4]
Remember, therefore, your renown, and go boldly against the enemy, thinking
the present strait and necessity more terrible than they.’
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: Oedipus at Colonus, 263
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