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44.
However, I have not come forward either to
oppose or to accuse in the matter of Mitylene; indeed, the question before us as sensible men is not their guilt, but our
interests.
[2]
Though I prove them ever so guilty, I shall not, therefore, advise their
death, unless it be expedient; nor though they should have claims to indulgence, shall I recommend it,
unless it be clearly for the good of the country.
[3]
I consider that we are deliberating for the future more than for the
present; and where Cleon is so positive as to the useful deterrent effects that will
follow from making rebellion capital, I who consider the interests of the
future quite as much as he, as positively maintain the contrary.
[4]
And I require you not to reject my useful considerations for his specious
ones: his speech may have the attraction of seeming the more just in your
present temper against Mitylene; but we are not in a court of justice, but in a political assembly; and the question is not justice, but how to make the Mitylenians useful to
Athens.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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