Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, book 4, chapter 18

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18. γνῶτε δὲ καὶ ἐς τὰς ἡμετέρας νῦν ξυμφορὰς ἀπιδόντες, οἵτινες ἀξίωμα μέγιστον τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἔχοντες ἥκομεν παρ᾽ ὑμᾶς, πρότερον αὐτοὶ κυριώτεροι νομίζοντες εἶναι δοῦναι ἐφ᾽ ἃ νῦν ἀφιγμένοι ὑμᾶς αἰτούμεθα. [2] καίτοι οὔτε δυνάμεως ἐνδείᾳ ἐπάθομεν αὐτὸ οὔτε μείζονος προσγενομένης ὑβρίσαντες, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν αἰεὶ ὑπαρχόντων γνώμῃ σφαλέντες, ἐν ᾧ πᾶσι τὸ αὐτὸ ὁμοίως ὑπάρχει. [3] ὥστε οὐκ εἰκὸς ὑμᾶς διὰ τὴν παροῦσαν νῦν ῥώμην πόλεώς τε καὶ τῶν προσγεγενημένων καὶ τὸ τῆς τύχης οἴεσθαι αἰεὶ μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν ἔσεσθαι. [4] σωφρόνων δὲ ἀνδρῶν οἵτινες τἀγαθὰ ἐς ἀμφίβολον ἀσφαλῶς ἔθεντο （καὶ ταῖς ξυμφοραῖς οἱ αὐτοὶ εὐξυνετώτερον ἂν προσφέροιντο）, τόν τε πόλεμον νομίσωσι μὴ καθ᾽ ὅσον ἄν τις αὐτοῦ μέρος βούληται μεταχειρίζειν, τούτῳ ξυνεῖναι, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἂν αἱ τύχαι αὐτῶν ἡγήσωνται: καὶ ἐλάχιστ᾽ ἂν οἱ τοιοῦτοι πταίοντες διὰ τὸ μὴ τῷ ὀρθουμένῳ αὐτοῦ πιστεύοντες ἐπαίρεσθαι ἐν τῷ εὐτυχεῖν ἂν μάλιστα καταλύοιντο. [5] ὃ νῦν ὑμῖν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, καλῶς ἔχει πρὸς ἡμᾶς πρᾶξαι,καὶ μή ποτε ὕστερον, ἢν ἄρα μὴ πειθόμενοι σφαλῆτε, ἃ πολλὰ ἐνδέχεται, νομισθῆναι τύχῃ καὶ τὰ νῦν προχωρήσαντα κρατῆσαι, ἐξὸν ἀκίνδυνον δόκησιν ἰσχύος καὶ ξυνέσεως ἐς τὸ ἔπειτα καταλιπεῖν.

Thucydides. Historiae in two volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1942.

Commentary references to this page (15):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 281
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae, 616
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.13
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.58
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.11
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.14
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.16
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.23
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.26
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.3
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.60
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.8
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.88
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.89
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.9
Cross-references to this page (3):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADJECTIVE CLAUSES (RELATIVE CLAUSES: 2488-2573）
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.3
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), PERIOECI
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (19):
- LSJ, ἀμφίβολ-ος
- LSJ, δόκησις
- LSJ, ἔνδεια
- LSJ, ἐνδέχομαι
- LSJ, ἐπαίρω
- LSJ, εὐσύνετος
- LSJ, καταλείπω
- LSJ, κύριος
- LSJ, μεταχειρ-ίζω
- LSJ, ὁ
- LSJ, ὀρθόω
- LSJ, προσφέρω
- LSJ, προχωρ-έω
- LSJ, πταίω
- LSJ, ῥώμη
- LSJ, σφάλλω
- LSJ, σύνειμι
- LSJ, τίθημι
- LSJ, ὑπάρχω

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