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73.
The object of our mission here was not to
argue with your allies, but to attend to the matters on which our State
despatched us.
However, the vehemence of the outcry that we hear against us has prevailed
on us to come forward.
It is not to combat the accusations of the cities （indeed you are
not the judges before whom either we or they can plead）, but to
prevent your taking the wrong course on matters of great importance by
yielding too readily to the persuasions of your allies.
We also wish to show on a review of the whole indictment that we have a
fair title to our possessions, and that our country has claims to
consideration.
[2]
We need not refer to remote antiquity: there we could appeal to the voice
of tradition, but not to the experience of our audience.
But to the Median war and contemporary history we must refer, although we
are rather tired of continually bringing this subject forward.
In our action during that war we ran great risk to obtain certain
advantages: you had your share in the solid results, do not try to rob us of
all share in the good that the glory may do us.
[3]
However, the story shall be told not so much to deprecate hostility as to
testify against it, and to show, if you are so ill-advised as to enter into
a struggle with Athens, what sort of an antagonist she is likely to prove.
[4]
We assert that at Marathon we were at the front, and faced the barbarian
single-handed.
That when he came the second time, unable to cope with him by land we went
on board our ships with all our people, and joined in the action at Salamis.
This prevented his taking the Peloponnesian states in detail, and ravaging
them with his fleet; when the multitude of his vessels would have made any combination for
self-defence impossible.
[5]
The best proof of this was furnished by the invader himself.
Defeated at sea, he considered his power to be no longer what it had been,
and retired as speedily as possible with the greater part of his army.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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- LSJ, δήλ-ωσις
- LSJ, ἄξιος
- LSJ, ἄν
- LSJ, ἀκοή
- LSJ, ἀντιλογ-ία
- LSJ, ἀπέοικα
- LSJ, ἐπιβοηθ-έω
- LSJ, ἐρῶ
- LSJ, εἰμί
- LSJ, καταβο-ή
- LSJ, ὅπως
- LSJ, ὄχλος
- LSJ, παν-δημεί
- LSJ, πα^ρά
- LSJ, παραίτ-ησις
- LSJ, πρέσβ-ευσις
- LSJ, προκινδυ_νεύω
- LSJ, ῥᾴδιος
- LSJ, στερίσκω
- LSJ, σύνοιδα
- LSJ, συνναυμα^χέω
- LSJ, τάχος
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