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74.
Such, then, was the result of the matter, and
it was clearly proved that it was on the fleet of Hellas that her cause
depended.
Well, to this result we contributed three very useful elements, viz. the
largest number of ships, the ablest commander, and the most unhesitating
patriotism.
Our contingent of ships was little less than two-thirds of the whole four
hundred; the commander was Themistocles, through whom chiefly it was that the battle
took place in the straits, the acknowledged salvation of our cause.
Indeed, this was the reason of your receiving him with honors such as had
never been accorded to any foreign visitor.
[2]
While for daring patriotism we had no competitors.
Receiving no reinforcements from behind, seeing everything in front of us
already subjugated, we had the spirit, after abandoning our city, after
sacrificing our property （instead of deserting the remainder of the
league or depriving them of our services by dispersing）, to throw
ourselves into our ships and meet the danger, without a thought of resenting
your neglect to assist us.
[3]
We assert, therefore, that we conferred on you quite as much as we
received.
For you had a stake to fight for; the cities which you had left were still filled with your homes, and you
had the prospect of enjoying them again; and your coming was prompted quite as much by fear for yourselves as for
us; at all events, you never appeared till we had nothing left to lose.
But we left behind us a city that was a city no longer, and staked our
lives for a city that had an existence only in desperate hope, and so bore
our full share in your deliverance and in ours.
[4]
But if we had copied others, and allowed fears for our territory to make us
give in our adhesion to the Mede before you came, or if we had suffered our
ruin to break our spirit and prevent us embarking in our ships, your naval
inferiority would have made a sea-fight unnecessary, and his objects would
have been peaceably attained.
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.pos=2.2
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- LSJ, αἴτι-ος
- LSJ, δείξω
- LSJ, ἐν
- LSJ, εἰς
- LSJ, οὐ
- LSJ, περίλοιπος
- LSJ, πολύς
- LSJ, πρᾶγμα
- LSJ, προλείπω
- LSJ, προθυ_μ-ία
- LSJ, προσχωρ-έω
- LSJ, προτι_μωρέω
- LSJ, προχωρ-έω
- LSJ, συμβαίνω
- LSJ, συσσῴζω
- LSJ, σῴζω
- LSJ, σῶς
- LSJ, τολμ-ηρός
- LSJ, ὡς
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