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87.
But we hope, Camarinaeans, that the calumnies
of the Syracusans will not be allowed to succeed either with you or with the
rest: we have told you the whole truth upon the things we are suspected of,
and will now briefly recapitulate, in the hope of convincing you.
[2]
We assert that we are rulers in Hellas in order not to be subjects; liberators in Sicily that we may not be harmed by the Sicilians; that we are compelled to interfere in many things, because we have many
things to guard against; and that now, as before, we are come as allies to those of you who suffer
wrong in this island, not without invitation but upon invitation.
[3]
Accordingly, instead of making yourselves judges or censors of our conduct,
and trying to turn us, which it were now difficult to do, so far as there is
anything in our interfering policy or in our character, that chimes in with
your interest, this take and make use of; and be sure that far from being injurious to all alike, to most of the
Hellenes that policy is even beneficial.
[4]
Thanks to it, all men in all places, even where we are not, who either
apprehend or meditate aggression, from the near prospect before them, in the
one case, of obtaining our intervention in their favour, in the other, of
our arrival making the venture dangerous, find themselves constrained,
respectively, to be moderate against their will, and to be preserved without
trouble of their own.
[5]
Do not you reject this security that is open to all who desire it, and is
now offered to you; but do like others, and instead of being always on the defensive against
the Syracusans, unite with us, and in your turn at last threaten
them.’
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.38
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.36
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXVII
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators, 94
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.pos=7.6
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 1.70
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- LSJ, ἀντιτυγχάνω
- LSJ, ἀπολαμβάνω
- LSJ, ἀπράγμ-ων
- LSJ, ἐξι^σ-όω
- LSJ, κεφάλαι-ος
- LSJ, μεταλαμβάνω
- LSJ, πᾶς
- LSJ, πολυπραγμ-οσύνη
- LSJ, σωφρον-ιστής
- LSJ, ὕπειμι
- LSJ, ὑπάρχω
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