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67.
With us it is different.
The original estimate of ourselves which gave us courage in the days of our
unskillfulness has been strengthened, while the convictions super-added to
it that we must be the best seamen of the time, if we have conquered the
best, has given a double measure of hope to every man among us; and, for the most part, where there is the greatest hope, there is also the
greatest ardor for action.
[2]
The means to combat us which they have tried to find in copying our
armament are familiar to our warfare, and will be met by proper provisions; while they will never be able to have a number of heavy infantry on their
decks, contrary to their custom, and a number of darters (born
landsmen, one may say, Acarnanians and others, embarked afloat, who will not
know how to discharge their weapons when they have to keep still),
without hampering their vessels and falling all into confusion among
themselves through fighting not according to their own tactics.
[3]
For they will gain nothing by the number of their ships—I say
this to those of you who may be alarmed by having to fight against
odds—as a quantity of ships in a confined space will only be
slower in executing the movements required, and most exposed to injury from
our means of offence.
[4]
Indeed, if you would know the plain truth, as we are credibly informed, the
excess of their sufferings and the necessities of their present distress
have made them desperate; they have no confidence in their force, but wish to try their fortune in
the only way they can, and either to force their passage and sail out, or
after this to retreat by land, it being impossible for them to be worse off
than they are.
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADJECTIVES
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADJECTIVE CLAUSES (RELATIVE CLAUSES: 2488-2573)
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.1
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.1.3
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.3
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
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- LSJ, ἀνάρμοστ-ος
- LSJ, ἀνεπι-στήμων
- LSJ, ἀντιμι?μ-ησις
- LSJ, ἀπόνοια
- LSJ, ἀποκινδύν-ευσις
- LSJ, ἀποτολμ-άω
- LSJ, ἀργός
- LSJ, βι^άζω
- LSJ, εὑρίσκω
- LSJ, φοβέω
- LSJ, κρα?́τιστ-ος
- LSJ, ὅπως
- LSJ, ὅς
- LSJ, πυνθάνομαι
- LSJ, ῥᾴδιος
- LSJ, σφάλλω
- LSJ, τα^ράσσω
- LSJ, τρόπος
- LSJ, ὑπερβάλλω
- LSJ, ὠφελ-έω
- LSJ, χείρων
- LSJ, χερσ-αῖος
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