History of the Peloponnesian War Done Into English by Richard CrawleyJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1914 - 614 pagina's |
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Acarnanians accordingly afterwards Agis Alcibiades alliance allies Ambraciots Argives Argos armament arms army arrived Astyochus Athe Athenians Athens attack Attica barbarian battle blockade Boeotians BOOK Brasidas cavalry Chalcidians CHAP Chians Chios coast command Corcyra Corcyræans Corinth Corinthians dæmon danger Decelea defeated Demosthenes Eleans enemy engaged envoys Euboea expedition fear fight fleet force fortified galleys garrison Gylippus harbour heavy infantry Hellas Hellenes honour hundred invaded island joined king Lacedæ Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land Mantineans marched Meanwhile the Athenians Mede Megara Megarians Miletus Mitylene Mitylenians monians Naupactus nesians nians Nicias once party peace Pelopon Peloponnese Peloponnesians Perdiccas Piræus Platæans Potidea present Pylos rest retreat revolt round sailed Samos sent ships Sicels Sicily side Sitalces Spartan Syracusans Syracuse temple territory Thebans thought Thracian tion Tissaphernes took town treaty troops trophy truce vessels victory wall winter wished yourselves
Populaire passages
Pagina 7 - 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.
Pagina ix - The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those who delayed doing so at once having it in contemplation.
Pagina 36 - Thus they toil on in trouble and danger all the days of their life, with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting: their only idea of a holiday is to do what the occasion demands, and to them laborious occupation is less of a misfortune than the peace of a quiet life. To describe their character in a word, one might truly say that they were born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others.
Pagina 117 - ... wishes wait ; and while committing to hope the uncertainty of final success, in the business before them they thought fit to act boldly and trust in themselves. Thus choosing to die resisting, rather than to live submitting, they fled only from dishonour, but met danger face to face, and after one brief moment, while at the summit of their fortune, escaped, not from their fear, but from their glory.
Pagina 114 - The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no positive penalty.
Pagina 185 - The most alarming feature in the case is the constant change of measures with which we appear to be threatened, and our seeming ignorance of the fact that bad laws which are never changed are better for a city than good ones that have no authority; that unlearned loyalty is more serviceable than quick-witted insubordination; and that ordinary men usually manage public affairs better than their more gifted fellows.
Pagina 115 - Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters; for, unlike any other nation, regarding him who takes no part in these duties not as unambitious but as useless, we Athenians are able to judge at all events if we cannot originate, and instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling-block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise...
Pagina 115 - ... our citizens by land upon a hundred different services; so that, wherever they engage with some such fraction of our strength, a success against a detachment is magnified into a victory over the nation, and a defeat into a reverse suffered at the hands of our entire people.
Pagina xi - And the first person known to us by tradition as having established a navy is Minos. He made himself master of what is now called the Hellenic sea, and ruled over the Cyclades, into most of which he sent the first colonies, expelling the Carians and appointing his own sons governors ; and thus did his best to put down piracy in those waters, a necessary step to secure the revenues for his own use.