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"But you have made it apparent that even then it was not for the Grecians' sake that you alone of all the Boeotians Medized not but because the Athenians did not;
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yet now you that would do as the Athenians did, and contrary to what the Grecians did, claim favour of these for what you did for the others' sake.
But there is no reason for that;
but as you have chosen the Athenians, so let them help you in this trial.
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And produce not the oath of the former league as if that should save you now.
For you have relinquished it and, contrary to the same, have rather helped the Athenians to subdue the Aeginetae and others than hindered them from it.
And this you not only did voluntarily and having laws the same you have now, and none forcing you to it as there did us, but also rejected our last invitation, a little before the shutting up of your city, to quietness and neutrality.
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Who can therefore more deservedly be hated of the Grecians in general than you that pretend honesty to their ruin?
And those acts wherein formerly, as you say, you have been beneficial to the Grecians, you have now made apparent to be none of yours and made true proof of what your own nature inclines you to.
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For with Athenians you have walked in the way of injustice.
And thus much we have laid open touching our involuntary Medizing and your voluntary Atticizing.
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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