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77.
But we are not now come to declare to an
audience familiar with them the misdeeds of a state so open to accusation as
is the Athenian, but much rather to blame ourselves, who, with the warnings
we possess in the Hellenes in those parts that have been enslaved through
not supporting each other, and seeing the same sophisms being now tried upon
ourselves—such as restorations of Leontine kinsfolk and support of
Egestaean allies—do not stand together and resolutely show them
that here are no Ionians, or Hellespontines, or islanders, who change
continually, but always serve a master, sometimes the Mede and sometimes
some other, but free Dorians from independent Peloponnese, dwelling in
Sicily.
[2]
Or, are we waiting until we be taken in detail, one city after another; knowing as we do that in no other way can we be conquered, and seeing that
they turn to this plan, so as to divide some of us by words, to draw some by
the bait of an alliance into open war with each other, and to ruin others by
such flattery as different circumstances may render acceptable?
And do we fancy when destruction first overtakes a distant
fellow-countryman that the danger will not come to each of us also, or that
he who suffers before us will suffer in himself alone?
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, εὐκατ-ηγόρητος
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