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90.
So much then for the prejudices with which I
am regarded: I now can call your attention to the questions you must
consider, and upon which superior knowledge perhaps permits me to speak.
[2]
We sailed to Sicily first to conquer, if possible, the Siceliots, and after
them the Italiots also, and finally to assail the empire and city of
Carthage.
[3]
In the event of all or most of these schemes succeeding, we were then to
attack Peloponnese, bringing with us the entire force of the Hellenes lately
acquired in those parts, and taking a number of barbarians into our pay,
such as the Iberians and others in those countries, confessedly the most
warlike known, and building numerous galleys in addition to those which we
had already, timber being plentiful in Italy; and with this fleet blockading Peloponnese from the sea and assailing it
with our armies by land, taking some of the cities by storm, drawing works
of circumvallation round others, we hoped without difficulty to effect its
reduction, and after this to rule the whole of the Hellenic name.
[4]
Money and corn meanwhile for the better execution of these plans were to be
supplied in sufficient quantities by the newly acquired places in those
countries, independently of our revenues here at home.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.11
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.25
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXXII
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.2
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- Isocrates, On the Peace, Isoc. 8 85
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 8.2
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- LSJ, ἐμός
- LSJ, ἐντειχ-ίζω
- LSJ, εἰσηγ-ητέον
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