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76.
‘Camarinaeans, we did not come on
this embassy because we were afraid of your being frightened by the actual
forces of the Athenians, but rather of your being gained by what they would
say to you before you heard anything from us.
[2]
They are come to Sicily with the pretext that you know, and the intention
which we all suspect, in my opinion less to restore the Leontines to their
homes than to oust us from ours; as it is out of all reason that they should restore in Sicily the cities
that they lay waste in Hellas, or should cherish the Leontine Chalcidians
because of their Ionian blood, and keep in servitude the Euboean
Chalcidians, of whom the Leontines are a colony.
[3]
No; but the same policy which has proved so successful in Hellas is now being
tried in Sicily.
After being chosen as the leaders of the Ionians and of the other allies of
Athenian origin, to punish the Mede, the Athenians accused some of failure
in military service, some of fighting against each other, and others, as the
case might be, upon any colourable pretext that could be found, until they
thus subdued them all.
[4]
In fine, in the struggle against the Medes, the Athenians did not fight for
the liberty of the Hellenes, or the Hellenes for their own liberty, but the
former to make their countrymen serve them instead of him, the latter to
change one master for another, wiser indeed than the first, but wiser for
evil.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXII
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