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70.
Besides, we consider that we have as good a right as any one to point out a
neighbor's faults, particularly when we contemplate the great contrast
between the two national characters; a contrast of which, as far as we can see, you have little perception,
having never yet considered what sort of antagonists you will encounter in
the Athenians, how widely, how absolutely different from yourselves.
[2]
The Athenians are addicted to innovation, and their designs are
characterized by swiftness alike in conception and execution; you have a genius for keeping what you have got, accompanied by a total
want of invention, and when forced to act you never go far enough.
[3]
Again, they are adventurous beyond their power, and daring beyond their
judgment, and in danger they are sanguine; your wont is to attempt less than is justified by your power, to mistrust
even what is sanctioned by your judgment, and to fancy that from danger
there is no release.
[4]
Further, there is promptitude on their side against procrastination on
yours; they are never at home, you are never from it: for they hope by their
absence to extend their acquisitions, you fear by your advance to endanger
what you have left behind.
[5]
They are swift to follow up a success, and slow to recoil from a reverse.
[6]
Their bodies they spend ungrudgingly in their country's cause; their intellect they jealously husband to be employed in her service.
[7]
A scheme unexecuted is with them a positive loss, a successful enterprise a
comparative failure.
The deficiency created by the miscarriage of an undertaking is soon filled
up by fresh hopes; for they alone are enabled to call a thing hoped for a thing got, by the
speed with which they act upon their resolutions.
[8]
Thus they toil on in trouble and danger all the days of their life, with
little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting: their only
idea of a holiday is to do what the occasion demands, and to them laborious
occupation is less of a misfortune than the peace of a quiet life.
[9]
To describe their character in a word, one might truly say that they were
born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, ἄοκν-ος
- LSJ, ἀλλότριος
- LSJ, ἀναγκ-αῖος
- LSJ, ἀναπίπτω
- LSJ, ἀντελπίζω
- LSJ, ἀποδημ-ητής
- LSJ, ἀπο-λαύω
- LSJ, ἀπολύω
- LSJ, ἀπουσία
- LSJ, ἀπράγμ-ων
- LSJ, ἀσχολ-ία
- LSJ, αἰσθ-άνομαι
- LSJ, διά
- LSJ, διαφέρω
- LSJ, δύνα^μις
- LSJ, ἑορτ-ή
- LSJ, ἔνδημ-ος
- LSJ, ἐξέρχομαι
- LSJ, ἐξικνέομαι
- LSJ, ἐκλογ-ίζομαι
- LSJ, ἐλα?́χιστ-ος
- LSJ, ἐνδε-ής
- LSJ, ἐπί
- LSJ, ἐπίπον-ος
- LSJ, ἐπιφέρω
- LSJ, ἐπιγιγνώσκω
- LSJ, ἐπινο-έω
- LSJ, ἐπιτελ-έω
- LSJ, ἐπιχείρ-ησις
- LSJ, εὔελπ-ις
- LSJ, γνώμ-η
- LSJ, κινδυν-ευτής
- LSJ, μελλ-ητής
- LSJ, νεωτεροποι-ός
- LSJ, ὀξύς
- LSJ, πα^ρά
- LSJ, πεῖρα
- LSJ, πληρ-όω
- LSJ, στέρομαι
- LSJ, συναιρέω
- LSJ, σῴζω
- LSJ, τις
- LSJ, τολμ-ητής
- LSJ, ὑμέτερος
- LSJ, ὑπάρχω
- LSJ, χράω
- LSJ, ψόγος
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