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63.
You must remember this and fight on as long
as you can, and must not let yourselves be driven ashore, but once alongside
must make up your minds not to part company until you have swept the heavy
infantry from the enemy's deck.
[2]
I say this more for the heavy infantry than for the seamen, as it is more
the business of the men on deck; and our land forces are even now on the whole the strongest.
[3]
The sailors I advise, and at the same time implore, not to be too much
daunted by their misfortunes, now that we have our decks better armed and a
greater number of vessels.
Bear in mind how well worth preserving is the pleasure felt by those of you
who through your knowledge of our language and imitation of our manners were
always considered Athenians, even though not so in reality, and as such were
honored throughout Hellas, and had your full share of the advantages of our
empire, and more than your share in the respect of our subjects and in
protection from ill treatment.
[4]
You, therefore, with whom alone we freely share our empire, we now justly
require not to betray that empire in its extremity, and in scorn of
Corinthians, whom you have often conquered, and of Siceliots, none of whom
so much as presumed to stand against us when our navy was in its prime, we
ask you to repel them, and to show that even in sickness and disaster your
skill is more than a match for the fortune and vigor of any other.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADJECTIVES
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- LSJ, ἄνωθεν
- LSJ, ἀπα^ράσσω
- LSJ, ἐπικρα^τ-έω
- LSJ, καταφρον-έω
- LSJ, κοινων-ός
- LSJ, παραιν-έω
- LSJ, παρα-κελεύομαι
- LSJ, πρότερος
- LSJ, θαυμ-άζω
- LSJ, συμπίπτω
- LSJ, ὑπάρχω
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