A History of Greece, Volume 6John Murray, 1849 - Greece |
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¹ Thucyd Akarnanians Alkidas alliance allies Ambrakiots Archidamus Aristophanês Arnold assembly Athe Athenian Athens attack Attica battle blockade Boeotian Brasidas citizens coast Corinth Corinthians dæmonians Demos Demosthenês dikastery doubtless enemy envoys Epirots farther favour force Göller Grecian Greece Greeks Gulf harbour hoplites island Kleon Knêmus Korkyra Korkyræan Lacedæmonians land latter less Leukas means Megara Megarians ment Mitylenæans Mitylênê Naupaktus naval nians Nikias oligarchical orator Pachês party passage Peiræus Peloponnesian fleet Peloponnesian war Peloponnesus Periklês Pheidias Phormio Platæans Plutarch political ponnesian Poppo Potidæa prisoners probably Pylus ravage revolt Rhium sailed sent ships Sitalkês slain Sparta speech Sphakteria territory Thebans Thrace Thucyd Thucydidês tion town triremes truce wall Xenophon ἂν αὐτοὺς γὰρ δὲ διὰ ἑαυτῶν εἰ εἶναι ἐν ἐπὶ ἐς καὶ κατὰ μὲν μὴ οἱ οὐ οὐκ πρὸς τὰ τὰς τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 342 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 342 - I must pause a moment. The thing seems a great deal too big for my ideas of jurisprudence. It should seem, to my way of conceiving such matters, that there is a very wide difference in reason and policy between the mode of proceeding on the irregular conduct of scattered individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire.
Page 449 - Then all the mounds and banks of our constancy were borne down at once; and the frenzy of the American war broke in upon us like a deluge. This victory, which seemed to put an immediate end to all difficulties, perfected us in that spirit of domination which our unparalleled prosperity had but too long nurtured.
Page 196 - Moreover, we always hear and pronounce on public matters, when discussed by our leaders, — or perhaps strike out for ourselves correct reasonings about them: far from accounting discussion an impediment to action, we complain only if we are not told what is to be done before it becomes our duty to do it. For, in truth, we combine in the most remarkable manner these two qualities, — extreme boldness in execution, with full debate beforehand on that which we are going about : whereas, with others,...
Page 199 - This portion of the speech of Perikles deserves peculiar attention, because it serves to correct an assertion, often far too indiscriminately made, respecting antiquity as contrasted with modern societies — an assertion that the ancient societies sacrificed the individual to the state, and that only in modern times has individual agency been left free to the proper extent.
Page 215 - Elate with their own escape, they deemed themselves out of the reach of all disease, and were full of compassionate kindness for others whose sufferings were just beginning. It was from them too that the principal attention to the bodies of deceased victims proceeded : for such was the state of dismay and sorrow that even the nearest relatives neglected the sepulchral duties, sacred beyond all others in the eyes of a Greek.
Page 194 - ... are enforced by a common sense of shame. Besides this, we have provided for our minds numerous recreations from toil, partly by our customary solemnities of sacrifice and festival throughout the year, partly by the elegance of our private establishments, — the daily charm of which banishes the sense of discomfort. From the magnitude of our city...
Page 449 - England) you were greatly divided ; and a very strong body, if not the strongest, opposed itself to the madness which every art and every power were employed to render popular, in order that the errors of the rulers might be lost in the general blindness of the nation.
Page 565 - The historian rendered an im|«irtant service to his country, and it does not appear that human prudence and activity could have accomplished anything more under the same circumstances. Yet his unavoidable failure proved the occasion of a sentence under which he spent twenty years of his life in exile ; and he was only restored to his country in the season of her deepest humiliation by the public calamities.
Page 218 - Three years altogether did this calamity desolate Athens : continuously, during the entire second and third years of the war — after which followed a period of marked abatement for a year and a half ; but it then revived again, and lasted for another year, with the same fury as at first. The public loss, over and above the private misery, which this unexpected enemy inflicted upon Athens, was incalculable. Out of...