87.
Ath. 'Nay, but if you are only going to argue from fancies about the future, or if you meet1 us with any other purpose than that of looking your circumstances in the face and saving your city, we have done; but if this is your intention we will proceed.'
1 In any case you must face the facts.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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