‘καὶ σύ , ὦ πρύτανι , ταῦτα , εἴπερ ἡγεῖ σοι προσήκειν κήδεσθαί τε τῆς πόλεως καὶ βούλει γενέσθαι πολίτης ἀγαθός , ἐπιψήφιζε καὶ γνώμας προτίθει αὖθις Ἀθηναίοις , νομίσας , εἰ ὀρρωδεῖς τὸ ἀναψηφίσαι , τὸ μὲν λύειν τοὺς νόμους μὴ μετὰ τοσῶνδ’ ἂν μαρτύρων αἰτίαν σχεῖν , τῆς δὲ πόλεως 〈κακῶς 〉 βουλευσαμένης ἰατρὸς ἂν γενέσθαι , καὶ τὸ καλῶς ἄρξαι τοῦτ’ εἶναι , ὃς ἂν τὴν πατρίδα ὠφελήσῃ ὡς πλεῖστα ἢ ἑκὼν εἶναι μηδὲν βλάψῃ . ’
Historiae. Thucydides. Henry Stuart Jones. Oxford. 1910.
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