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63.
Again, your country has a right to your
services in sustaining the glories of her position.
These are a common source of pride to you all, and you cannot decline the
burdens of empire and still expect to share its honors.
You should remember also that what you are fighting against is not merely
slavery as an exchange for independence, but also loss of empire and danger
from the animosities incurred in its exercise.
[2]
Besides, to recede is no longer possible, if indeed any of you in the alarm
of the moment has become enamored of the honesty of such an unambitious
part.
For what you hold is, to speak somewhat plainly, a tyranny; to take it perhaps was wrong, but to let it go is unsafe.
[3]
And men of these retiring views, making converts of others, would quickly
ruin a state; indeed the result would be the same if they could live independent by
themselves; for the retiring and unambitious are never secure without vigorous
protectors at their side; in fine, such qualities are useless to an imperial city, though they may
help a dependency to an unmolested servitude.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 216-462
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.40
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PREPOSITIONS
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 3.37
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- LSJ, αὐτόνομ-ος
- LSJ, διώκω
- LSJ, δραστ-ήριος
- LSJ, ἐξίστημι
- LSJ, ἐπί
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- LSJ, στέρ-ησις
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- LSJ, τάσσω
- LSJ, τι_μάω
- LSJ, τι_μ-ή
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