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41.
In short, I say that as a city we are the
school of Hellas; while I doubt if the world can produce a man, who where he has only himself
to depend upon, is equal to so many emergencies, and graced by so happy a
versatility as the Athenian.
[2]
And that this is no mere boast thrown out for the occasion, but plain
matter of fact, the power of the state acquired by these habits proves.
[3]
For Athens alone of her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater
than her reputation, and alone gives no occasion to her assailants to blush
at the antagonist by whom they have been worsted, or to her subjects to
question her title by merit to rule.
[4]
Rather, the admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours,
since we have not left our power without witness, but have shown it by
mighty proofs; and far from needing a Homer for our panegyrist, or other of his craft
whose verses might charm for the moment only for the impression which they
gave to melt at the touch of fact, we have forced every sea and land to be
the highway of our daring, and everywhere, whether for evil or for good,
have left imperishable monuments behind us.
[5]
Such is the Athens for which these men, in the assertion of their resolve
not to lose her, nobly fought and died; and well may well every one of their survivors be ready to suffer in her
cause.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, ἀμάρτ-υ^ρος
- LSJ, αὐτίκα^
- LSJ, δι^και-όω
- LSJ, ἔχω
- LSJ, ἐνδέξιος
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- LSJ, εἰσ-βα^τός
- LSJ, εὐτρα?́πελ-ος
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- LSJ, κάμνω
- LSJ, κα^κοπαθ-έω
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- LSJ, κόμπος
- LSJ, μνημ-εῖον
- LSJ, οἷος
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- LSJ, πεῖρα
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- LSJ, προσδέω
- LSJ, θαυμ-άζω
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- LSJ, συναιρέω
- LSJ, τέρπω
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