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78.
As for the Camarinaean, who says that it is
the Syracusan, not he, that is the enemy of the Athenian, and who thinks it
hard to have to encounter risk in behalf of my country, I would have him
bear in mind that he will fight in my country, not more for mine than for
his own, and by so much the more safely in that he will enter on the
struggle not alone, after the way has been cleared by my ruin, but with me
as his ally; and that the object of the Athenian is not so much to punish the enmity of
the Syracusan as to use me as a blind to secure the friendship of the
Camarinaean.
[2]
As for him who envies or even fears us （and envied and feared
great powers must always be）, and who on this account wishes
Syracuse to be humbled to teach us a lesson, but would still have her
survive in the interest of his own security, the wish that he indulges is
not humanly possible.
A man can control his own desires, but he cannot likewise control
circumstances.
[3]
And in the event of his calculations proving mistaken, he may live to
bewail his own misfortune, and wish to be again envying my prosperity.An
idle wish, if he now sacrifice us and refuse to take his share of perils
which are the same, in reality though not in name, for him as for us; what is nominally the preservation of our power being really his own
salvation.
[4]
It was to be expected that you, of all people in the world, Camarinaeans,
being our immediate neighbours and the next in danger, would have foreseen
this, and instead of supporting us in the lukewarm way that you are now
doing, would rather come to us of your own accord, and be now offering at
Syracuse the aid which you would have asked for at Camarina, if to Camarina
the Athenians had first come, to encourage us to resist the invader.
Neither you, however, nor the rest have as yet bestirred yourselves in this
direction.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, ὅμορος
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