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68.
The fortune of our greatest enemies having
thus betrayed itself, and their disorder being what I have described, let us
engage in anger, convinced that, as between adversaries, nothing is more
legitimate than to claim to sate the whole wrath of one's soul in punishing
the aggressor, and nothing more sweet, as the proverb has it, than the
vengeance upon an enemy, which it will now be ours to take.
[2]
That enemies they are and mortal enemies you all know, since they came here
to enslave our country, and if successful had in reserve for our men all
that is most dreadful, and for our children and wives all that is most
dishonorable, and for the whole city the name which conveys the greatest
reproach.
[3]
None should therefore relent or think it gain if they go away without
further danger to us.
This they will do just the same, even if they get the victory; while if we succeed, as we may expect, in chastising them, and in handing
down to all Sicily her ancient freedom strengthened and confirmed, we shall
have achieved no mean triumph.
And the rarest dangers are those in which failure brings little loss and
success the greatest advantage.’
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.45
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.59
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.10
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADJECTIVES
- Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache, Von den Adjektiven und Participien insbesondere.
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- LSJ, ἀκίνδυ_ν-ος
- LSJ, ἀποπίμπλημι
- LSJ, δουλ-όω
- LSJ, ἔχθ-ιστος
- LSJ, ἐπί-κλησις
- LSJ, καί
- LSJ, καρπόω
- LSJ, κέρδος
- LSJ, κολάζω
- LSJ, λέγω
- LSJ, νομ-ίζω
- LSJ, προσμείγνυ_μι
- LSJ, θυ_μόω
- LSJ, σπα?́ν-ιος
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