 | Ida Carleton Thallon - 1914 - 680 pagina’s
...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...none to others: " Such is Athens, your antagonist." Archidamus, the Spartan king, fully justified the usual policy of conservatism, but one of the ephors... | |
 | Horace West Household - 1928 - 200 pagina’s
...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...others. Such is Athens, your antagonist. And yet, Lacedaemonians, you still delay, and fail to see that peace stays longest with those who are not more... | |
 | Benjamin Frankel - 1996 - 454 pagina’s
...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...give none to others. Such is Athens, your antagonist. (3.70) If third-image explanations initially framed the context of events, there is little doubt that... | |
 | Benjamin Frankel - 1996 - 454 pagina’s
...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...character in a word, one might truly say that they were bom into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others. Such is Athens, your antagonist.... | |
 | Douglas C. Lummis - 1996 - 204 pagina’s
...another, outside the polis is a moral void, with little to slow them down. The Athenians are pure action, "they were born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others" ( i .70), said a Corinthian speaker at the beginning of the war; "We cannot fix the exact point at... | |
 | Michael E. Brown, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Steven E. Miller - 1996 - 420 pagina’s
...danger they are sanguine. . . . Their bodies they spend ungrudgingly in their country's cause . . . and to them laborious occupation is less of a misfortune than the peace of a quiet life."38 The Athenian good life consisted in what Charles Taylor calls the warrior ethic.39 In this... | |
 | Josiah Ober, Charles Hedrick - 1996 - 490 pagina’s
...their country's cause; their intellect they jealously husband to be employed in her service. . . . [T]hey were born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others.42 The Aristotelian author of The Constitution of Athens, after describing the overthrow of... | |
 | John Malloy Owen - 1997 - 268 pagina’s
...danger they are sanguine. . . . Their bodies they spend ungrudgingly in their country's cause . . . and to them laborious occupation is less of a misfortune than the peace of a quiet life."53 50. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. JP Mayer, trans. George Lawrence (New... | |
 | J. Peter Euben - 1997 - 287 pagina’s
...country's cause; their intellect they jealously husband to be employed in her service." Here is a people "born into the world to take no rest themselves and to give none to others" (1.70). In case we think this is simply the polemical exaggeration of a frustrated enemy, Thucydides... | |
 | Marietta Stepaniants, Ron Bontekoe - 1997 - 492 pagina’s
...harmony and balance because it was a virtne they rarely achieved. As Tbucydides noticed, they "were lxtrn into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others."i2 Greek competitiveness exceeded even our own. Despite their lack of lawyers, the Athenians... | |
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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... 
