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36.
‘For the Athenians, he who does not
wish that they may be as misguided as they are supposed to be, and that they
may come here to become our subjects, is either a coward or a traitor to his
country; while as for those who carry such tidings and fill you with so much alarm,
I wonder less at their audacity than at their folly if they flatter
themselves that we do not see through them.
[2]
The fact is that they have their private reasons to be afraid, and wish to
throw the city into consternation to have their own terrors cast into the
shade by the public alarm.
In short, this is what these reports are worth; they do not arise of themselves, but are concocted by men who are always
causing agitation here in Sicily.
[3]
However, if you are well advised, you will not be guided in your
calculation of probabilities by what these persons tell you, but by what
shrewd men and of large experience, as I esteem the Athenians to be, would
be likely to do.
[4]
Now it is not likely that they would leave the Peloponnesians behind them,
and before they have well ended the war in Hellas wantonly come in quest of
a new war quite as arduous, in Sicily; indeed, in my judgment, they are only too glad that we do not go and attack
them, being so many and so great cities as we are.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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