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102. Mel. ‘But we know that, in matter of war, the event is sometimes otherwise than according to the difference of number in sides; and that if we yield presently, all our hope is lost; whereas if we hold out, we have yet a hope to keep ourselves up.’

The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.

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    • E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.62
    • Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.104
    • Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.63
    • Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, Introduction
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.4
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.45
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    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), COLO´NIA
    • William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter VI
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