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76.
The struggle now was between the army trying
to force a democracy upon the city, and the Four Hundred an oligarchy upon
the camp.
[2]
Meanwhile the soldiers forthwith held an assembly, in which they deposed
the former generals and any of the captains whom they suspected, and chose
new captains and generals to replace them, besides Thrasybulus and
Thrasyllus, whom they had already.
[3]
They also stood up and encouraged one another, and among other things urged
that they ought not to lose heart because the city had revolted from them,
as the party seceding was smaller and in every way poorer in resources than
themselves.
[4]
They had the whole fleet with which to compel the other cities in their
empire to give them money just as if they had their base in the capital,
having a city in Samos which, so far from wanting strength, had when at war
been within an ace of depriving the Athenians of the command of the sea,
while as far as the enemy was concerned they had the same base of operations
as before.
Indeed, with the fleet in their hands, they were better able to provide
themselves with supplies than the government at home.
[5]
It was their advanced position at Samos which had throughout enabled the
home authorities to command the entrance into Piraeus; and if they refused to give them back the constitution, they would now find
that the army was more in a position to exclude them from the sea than they
were to exclude the army.
[6]
Besides, the city was of little or no use towards enabling them to overcome
the enemy; and they had lost nothing in losing those who had no longer either money to
send them (the soldiers having to find this for
themselves), or good counsel, which entitles cities to direct
armies.
On the contrary, even in this the home government had done wrong in
abolishing the institutions of their ancestors, while the army maintained
the said institutions, and would try to force the home government to do so
likewise.
So that even in point of good counsel the camp had as good counsellors as
the city.
[7]
Moreover, they had but to grant him security for his person and his recall,
and Alcibiades would be only too glad to procure them the alliance of the
king.
And above all, if they failed altogether, with the navy which they
possessed, they had numbers of places to retire to in which they would find
cities and lands.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.11
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.5
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.60
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CVI
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXIV
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Smith's Bio, Pericles
- Smith's Bio, Thrasy Bu'lus
- Smith's Bio, Thrasyllus
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- LSJ, ἀνίστημι
- LSJ, ἀποχώρ-ησις
- LSJ, βρα^χύς
- LSJ, μεθίστημι
- LSJ, οὐ
- LSJ, πα^ρά
- LSJ, πόρ-ι^μος
- LSJ, ποιέω
- LSJ, προκάθημαι
- LSJ, τοσοῦτος
- LSJ, ὑποτοπ-εύω
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