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85. ἀνδρὶ δὲ τυράννῳ ἢ πόλει ἀρχὴν ἐχούσῃ οὐδὲν ἄλογον ὅτι ξυμφέρον οὐδ᾽ οἰκεῖον ὅτι μὴ πιστόν: πρὸς ἕκαστα δὲ δεῖ ἢ ἐχθρὸν ἢ φίλον μετὰ καιροῦ γίγνεσθαι. καὶ ἡμᾶς τοῦτο ὠφελεῖ ἐνθάδε, οὐκ ἢν τοὺς φίλους κακώσωμεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἢν οἱ ἐχθροὶ διὰ τὴν τῶν φίλων ῥώμην ἀδύνατοι ὦσιν.
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ἀπιστεῖν δὲ οὐ χρή: καὶ γὰρ τοὺς ἐκεῖ ξυμμάχους ὡς ἕκαστοι χρήσιμοι ἐξηγούμεθα, Χίους μὲν καὶ Μηθυμναίους νεῶν παροκωχῇ αὐτονόμους, τοὺς δὲ πολλοὺς χρημάτων βιαιότερον φορᾷ, ἄλλους δὲ καὶ πάνυ ἐλευθέρως ξυμμαχοῦντας, καίπερ νησιώτας ὄντας καὶ εὐλήπτους, διότι ἐν χωρίοις ἐπικαίροις εἰσὶ περὶ τὴν Πελοπόννησον.
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ὥστε καὶ τἀνθάδε εἰκὸς πρὸς τὸ λυσιτελοῦν, καὶ ὃ λέγομεν, ἐς Συρακοσίους δέος καθίστασθαι. ἀρχῆς γὰρ ἐφίενται ὑμῶν καὶ βούλονται ἐπὶ τῷ ἡμετέρῳ ξυστήσαντες ὑμᾶς ὑπόπτῳ, βίᾳ ἢ καὶ κατ᾽ ἐρημίαν, ἀπράκτων ἡμῶν ἀπελθόντων, αὐτοὶ ἄρξαι τῆς Σικελίας. ἀνάγκη δέ, ἢν ξυστῆτε πρὸς αὐτούς: οὔτε γὰρ ἡμῖν ἔτι ἔσται ἰσχὺς τοσαύτη ἐς ἓν ξυστᾶσα εὐμεταχείριστος, οὔθ᾽ οἵδ᾽ ἀσθενεῖς ἂν ἡμῶν μὴ παρόντων πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἶεν.
Thucydides. Historiae in two volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1942.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 216-462
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.47
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.57
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.22
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LX
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.89
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 1.19
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 7.57
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- LSJ, ἄλογος
- LSJ, ἔστω
- LSJ, εὔληπτος
- LSJ, εὐμετα-χείριστος
- LSJ, λυ_σι^τελ-έω
- LSJ, παροκωχή
- LSJ, παροχ-ή
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