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22.
With reference to the speeches in this
history, some were delivered before the war began, others while it was going
on; some I heard myself, others I got from various quarters;
it was in all cases difficult to carry them word for word in one's memory,
so my habit has been to make the speakers say what was in my opinion
demanded of them by the various occasions, of course adhering as closely as
possible to the general sense of what they really said.
[2]
And with reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself
to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust
my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what
others saw for me, the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most
severe and detailed tests possible.
[3]
My conclusions have cost me some labour from the want of coincidence
between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising
sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one
side or the other.
[4]
The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from
its interest;
but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge
of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the
course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be
content.
In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the
applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADJECTIVE CLAUSES (RELATIVE CLAUSES: 2488-2573）
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
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