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64.
But you must not be seduced by citizens like
these nor be angry with me,—who, if I voted for war, only did as
you did yourselves,—in spite of the enemy having invaded your
country and done what you could be certain that he would do, if you refused
to comply with his demands; and although besides what we counted for, the plague has come upon
us—the only point indeed at which our calculation has been at
fault.
It is this, I know, that has had a large share in making me more unpopular
than I should otherwise have been,—quite undeservedly, unless you
are also prepared to give me the credit of any success with which chance may
present you.
[2]
Besides, the hand of Heaven must be borne with resignation, that of the
enemy with fortitude; this was the old way at Athens, and do not you prevent it being so still.
[3]
Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world,
it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city,
and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory
of which will descend to the latest posterity; even if now, in obedience to the general law of decay, we should ever be
forced to yield, still it will be remembered that we held rule over more
Hellenes than any other Hellenic state, that we sustained the greatest wars
against their united or separate powers, and inhabited a city unrivalled by
any other in resources or magnitude.
[4]
These glories may incur the censure of the slow and unambitious; but in the breast of energy they will awake emulation, and in those who
must remain without them an envious regret.
[5]
Hatred and unpopularity at the moment have fallen to the lot of all who
have aspired to rule others; but where odium must be incurred, true wisdom incurs it for the highest
objects.
Hatred also is shortlived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the
future remains for ever unforgotten.
[6]
Make your decision, therefore, for glory then and honor now, and attain
both objects by instant and zealous effort: do not send heralds to
Lacedaemon, and do not betray any sign of being oppressed by your present
sufferings, since they whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and
whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest
communities.’
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- LSJ, ἀνα_λίσκω
- LSJ, ἀνατίθημι
- LSJ, δαιμόνιος
- LSJ, ἕτερος
- LSJ, ἔνδηλος
- LSJ, ἔπειτα
- LSJ, ἔθος
- LSJ, ἐπίφθον-ος
- LSJ, εἰς
- LSJ, εὔπορ-ος
- LSJ, φύω
- LSJ, κρείσσων
- LSJ, κωλύω
- LSJ, λαμπρότης
- LSJ, λυ_π-έω
- LSJ, λυ_π-ηρός
- LSJ, ὄνομα
- LSJ, πᾶς
- LSJ, παρ-άγω
- LSJ, παραυτίκα^
- LSJ, πέρα_
- LSJ, πρᾶγμα
- LSJ, προγιγνώσκω
- LSJ, συνδια-γιγνώσκω
- LSJ, ὑπάρχω
- LSJ, ὑπενδίδωμι
- LSJ, ζηλ-όω
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