‘καὶ ἀνανδρία μηδενὶ πολλοὺς μιᾷ πόλει μὴ ταχὺ ἐπελθεῖν δοκείτω εἶναι .
εἰσὶ γὰρ καὶ ἐκείνοις οὐκ ἐλάσσους χρήματα φέροντες ξύμμαχοι , καὶ ἔστιν ὁ πόλεμος οὐχ ὅπλων τὸ πλέον ἀλλὰ δαπάνης , δι’ ἣν τὰ ὅπλα ὠφελεῖ , ἄλλως τε καὶ ἠπειρώταις πρὸς θαλασσίους .
πορισώμεθα οὖν πρῶτον αὐτήν , καὶ μὴ τοῖς τῶν ξυμμάχων λόγοις πρότερον ἐπαιρώμεθα , οἵπερ δὲ καὶ τῶν ἀποβαινόντων τὸ πλέον ἐπ’ ἀμφότερα τῆς αἰτίας ἕξομεν , οὗτοι καὶ καθ᾽ ἡσυχίαν τι αὐτῶν προΐδωμεν .
Historiae. Thucydides. Henry Stuart Jones. Oxford. 1910.
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