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141. αὐτόθεν δὴ διανοήθητε ἢ ὑπακούειν πρίν τι βλαβῆναι, ἢ εἰ πολεμήσομεν, ὥσπερ ἔμοιγε ἄμεινον δοκεῖ εἶναι, καὶ ἐπὶ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἐπὶ βραχείᾳ ὁμοίως προφάσει μὴ εἴξοντες μηδὲ ξὺν φόβῳ ἕξοντες ἃ κεκτήμεθα: τὴν γὰρ αὐτὴν δύναται δούλωσιν ἥ τε μεγίστη καὶ ἐλαχίστη δικαίωσις ἀπὸ τῶν ὁμοίων πρὸ δίκης τοῖς πέλας ἐπιτασσομένη.
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‘τὰ δὲ τοῦ πολέμου καὶ τῶν ἑκατέροις ὑπαρχόντων ὡς οὐκ ἀσθενέστερα ἕξομεν γνῶτε καθ᾽ ἕκαστον ἀκούοντες.
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αὐτουργοί τε γάρ εἰσι Πελοποννήσιοι καὶ οὔτε ἰδίᾳ οὔτ᾽ ἐν κοινῷ χρήματά ἐστιν αὐτοῖς, ἔπειτα χρονίων πολέμων καὶ διαποντίων ἄπειροι διὰ τὸ βραχέως αὐτοὶ ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλους ὑπὸ πενίας ἐπιφέρειν.
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καὶ οἱ τοιοῦτοι οὔτε ναῦς πληροῦντες οὔτε πεζὰς στρατιὰς πολλάκις ἐκπέμπειν δύνανται, ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων τε ἅμα ἀπόντες καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν αὑτῶν δαπανῶντες καὶ προσέτι καὶ θαλάσσης εἰργόμενοι:
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αἱ δὲ περιουσίαι τοὺς πολέμους μᾶλλον ἢ αἱ βίαιοι ἐσφοραὶ ἀνέχουσιν. σώμασί τε ἑτοιμότεροι οἱ αὐτουργοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἢ χρήμασι πολεμεῖν, τὸ μὲν πιστὸν ἔχοντες ἐκ τῶν κινδύνων κἂν περιγενέσθαι, τὸ δὲ οὐ βέβαιον μὴ οὐ προαναλώσειν, ἄλλως τε κἂν παρὰ δόξαν, ὅπερ εἰκός, ὁ πόλεμος αὐτοῖς μηκύνηται.
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μάχῃ μὲν γὰρ μιᾷ πρὸς ἅπαντας Ἕλληνας δυνατοὶ Πελοποννήσιοι καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι ἀντισχεῖν, πολεμεῖν δὲ μὴ πρὸς ὁμοίαν ἀντιπαρασκευὴν ἀδύνατοι, ὅταν μήτε βουλευτηρίῳ ἑνὶ χρώμενοι παραχρῆμά τι ὀξέως ἐπιτελῶσι πάντες τε ἰσόψηφοι ὄντες καὶ οὐχ ὁμόφυλοι τὸ ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτὸν ἕκαστος σπεύδῃ: ἐξ ὧν φιλεῖ μηδὲν ἐπιτελὲς γίγνεσθαι.
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καὶ γὰρ οἱ μὲν ὡς μάλιστα τιμωρήσασθαί τινα βούλονται, οἱ δὲ ὡς ἥκιστα τὰ οἰκεῖα φθεῖραι. χρόνιοί τε ξυνιόντες ἐν βραχεῖ μὲν μορίῳ σκοποῦσί τι τῶν κοινῶν, τῷ δὲ πλέονι τὰ οἰκεῖα πράσσουσι, καὶ ἕκαστος οὐ παρὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀμέλειαν οἴεται βλάψειν, μέλειν δέ τινι καὶ ἄλλῳ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ τι προϊδεῖν, ὥστε τῷ αὐτῷ ὑπὸ ἁπάντων ἰδίᾳ δοξάσματι λανθάνειν τὸ κοινὸν ἁθρόον φθειρόμενον.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 441
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.2
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.93
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.46
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.21
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.82
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.85
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.66
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.89
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER X
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XXIX
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER III
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.84
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.6.1
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 8.96
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- LSJ, ἄπειμι
- LSJ, ἄπειρος
- LSJ, ἀνέχω
- LSJ, ἀνθόπλ-ι^σις
- LSJ, ἀντιπαρα-σκευή
- LSJ, ἀθρόος
- LSJ, ἀσθεν-ής
- LSJ, αὐτόθεν
- LSJ, αὐτουργ-ός
- LSJ, βρα^χύς
- LSJ, δίκη
- LSJ, διανο-έω
- LSJ, διαπόντιος
- LSJ, δι^καί-ωσις
- LSJ, δόξ-ασμα
- LSJ, δύνα^μαι
- LSJ, ἑαυτοῦ
- LSJ, ἐπιφέρω
- LSJ, ἐπιτάσσω
- LSJ, ἐπιτελ-ής
- LSJ, εἴκω
- LSJ, ἴδιος
- LSJ, ἰσό-ψηφος
- LSJ, μέλω
- LSJ, ὁμό-φυ_λος
- LSJ, πα^ρά
- LSJ, πιστός
- LSJ, πρόφα^σ-ις
- LSJ, προανα_λίσκω
- LSJ, σπεύδω
- LSJ, ὑπέρ
- LSJ, ὡς
- LSJ, χρόν-ιος
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