Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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XVIII. gnôte^** de kai es tas hêmeteras nun xumphoras apidontes, hoitines^** axiôma megiston tôn Hellênôn echontes hêkomen par' humas, proteron autoi kuriôteroi^** nomizontes einai dounai eph' ha nun aphigmenoi humas aitoumetha. [2] kaitoi oute dunameôs^* endeiai epathomen auto oute meizonos prosgenomenês hubrisantes^*, apo de tôn aiei huparchontôn^** gnômêi sphalentes, en hôi^** pasi to auto homoiôs huparchei. [3] hôste ouk eikos humas dia tên parousan nun rhômên poleôs te kai tôn prosgegenêmenôn^** kai to tês tuchês^** oiesthai aiei meth' humôn esesthai. [4] sôphronôn^** de andrôn hoitines tagatha es amphibolon asphalôs ethento^* kai tais xumphorais hoi autoi euxunetôteron an prospherointo^**, ton te polemon^** nomisôsi mê kath' hoson an tis autou meros boulêtai metacheirizein, toutôi xuneinai, all'^** hôs an hai tuchai autôn hêgêsôntai^**: kai elachist'^** an hoi toioutoi ptaiontes dia to mê tôi orthoumenôi autou pisteuontes epairesthai en tôi eutuchein an malista kataluointo⁺. [5] ho nun humin, ô Athênaioi, kalôs echei pros hêmas praxai,kai mê pote husteron, ên ara^** mê peithomenoi sphalête, ha polla endechetai, nomisthênai tuchêi kai ta nun prochôrêsanta kratêsai, exon akindunon dokêsin ischuos kai xuneseôs es to epeita katalipein.

Further comments from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
book 4 (general note)
book 4, chapter 18: dikaioi eisi
book 4, chapter 18: talatha ... ethento
book 4, chapter 18: dikaioi eisi

Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
2567 [Fifth Form PRESENT GENERAL CONDITIONAL RELATIVES]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
*

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
559 [Konjunktiv ohne und mit an.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
* [531-632]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
2, 13, 2 [Commentary on Book 2]

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 58, 7

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
5, 3
5, 8
5, 9
5, 11
5, 14
5, 16
5, 16
5, 23
5, 26
5, 60
5, 88
5, 89

Cross references from Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5:
5, 105

Cross references from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
1, 134

This text is based on the following book(s):
Thucydides. Historiae in two volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1942.