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82.
‘Although we came here only to
renew the former alliance, the attack of the Syracusans compels us to speak
of our empire and of the good right we have to it.
[2]
The best proof of this the speaker himself furnished, when he called the
Ionians eternal enemies of the Dorians.
It is the fact; and the Peloponnesian Dorians being our superiors in numbers and next
neighbours, we Ionians looked out for the best means of escaping their
domination.
[3]
After the Median war we had a fleet, and so got rid of the empire and
supremacy of the Lacedaemonians, who had no right to give orders to us more
than we to them, except that of being the strongest at that moment; and being appointed leaders of the king's former subjects, we continue to
be so, thinking that we are least likely to fall under the dominion of the
Peloponnesians, if we have a force to defend ourselves with, and in strict
truth having done nothing unfair in reducing to subjection the Ionians and
islanders, the kinsfolk whom the Syracusans say we have enslaved.
[4]
They, our kinsfolk, came against their mother country, that is to say
against us, together with the Mede, and instead of having the courage to
revolt and sacrifice their property as we did when we abandoned our city,
chose to be slaves themselves, and to try to make us so.
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: Trachiniae, 347
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXVII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.89
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- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 3.61
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- LSJ, ἀεί
- LSJ, ἀνανέ-ωσις
- LSJ, δουλ-όω
- LSJ, εἶπον
- LSJ, καθάπτω
- LSJ, μητρό-πολις
- LSJ, παροικ-έω
- LSJ, πότε
- LSJ, προσήκω
- LSJ, ὑπα^κού-ω
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