The History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume 1Edward Earle, 1818 - Greece |
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Acarnanians affairs afterwards alliance allies Ambraciots amongst Amphipolis Archidamus arms army Athe Athenians Athens attack Attica Baotians Barbarians battle body Brasidas carried Cleon Cnemus coast colony command compleated confederates Corcyra Corcyréans Corinthians danger defence Demosthenes dispatched endeavour enemy engagement Epidamnus expedition fleet force friends further give greatest Grecians Greece guard harbour hath heavy-armed honour hundred immediately invaded island joined judged king Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land liberty light-armed manner marched Medes Megara Megaréans ment Messenians Mitylene Mitylenéans Naupactus naval neighbours never nians Nicias Nisæa occasion party Pausanias Peloponnesians Peloponnesus Perdiccas Pericles persons Phormio Platæans Platea possession Potidea present Pylus ready revolt sail seized sent shew ships Sicily side siege Sitalces soon Sparta squadron strength succour temple territory Thebans Themistocles thing thither Thrace Thucydides tion triremes trophy truce vessels victory wall whilst whole yourselves
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Page 145 - ... proceed to execution. Herein consists our distinguishing excellence, that in the hour of action we show the greatest courage, and yet debate beforehand the expediency of our measures. The courage of others is the result of ignorance; deliberation makes them cowards. And those undoubtedly must be owned to have the greatest souls, who, most acutely sensible of the miseries of war and the sweets of peace, are not hence in the least deterred from facing danger.
Page 150 - ... and said what I thought most pertinent to this assembly. Our departed friends have by facts been already honored. Their children from this day till they arrive at manhood shall be educated at the public expense of the state,
Page 143 - ... as we excel. The public administration is not confined to a particular family, but is attainable only by merit. Poverty is not...
Page 3 - ... like barbarians. A proof of this is the continuance still in some parts of Greece of those manners, which were once with uniformity general to all. The Athenians were the first who discontinued the custom of wearing their swords, and who passed from the dissolute life into more polite and elegant manners.
Page 96 - ... the other was delivered to their officer. When they had any thing of moment which they would secretly convey to him, they cut a long narrow scroll of parchment, and rolling it about their own staff, one fold close upon another, they wrote their business on it...
Page 146 - In the just defence of such a state these victims of their own valor, scorning the ruin threatened to it, have valiantly fought and bravely died. And every one of those who survive is ready, I am persuaded, to sacrifice life in such a cause. And for this reason have I enlarged so much on national points, to give the clearest proof that in the present war we have more at stake than men whose public advantages are not so valuable, and to illustrate by actual evidence, how great a commendation is due...
Page 148 - ... belongs to men who have reached the most glorious period of life, as these now have who are to you the source of sorrow — these whose life hath received its ample measure, happy in its continuance and equally happy in its conclusion. I know it in truth a difficult task to fix comfort in those breasts which will have frequent remembrances, in seeing the happiness of others, of what they once themselves enjoyed.
Page 142 - ... generation. Worthy indeed of praise are they, and yet more worthy are our immediate fathers ; since, enlarging their own inheritance into the extensive empire which we now possess, they bequeathed that their work of toil to us their sons. Yet even these successes, we ourselves here present, we who are yet in the strength and...
Page 146 - For it is a debt of justice to pay superior honors to men who have devoted their lives in fighting for their country, though inferior to others in every virtue but that of valor.
Page 14 - As to the speeches of particular persons, either at the commencement or in the prosecution of the war, whether such as I heard myself, or such as were repeated to me by others, I will not pretend to recite them in all their exactness. It has been my method to consider principally what might be pertinently said on every occasion to the points in debate, and to keep as near as possible to what would pass for genuine by universal consent.