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    Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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    XX. ‘hêmin de kalôs, eiper pote, echei amphoterois hê xunallagê*, prin ti anêkeston dia mesou genomenon hêmas katalabein, en hôi** anankê aidion humin echthran pros** têi koinêi kai idian** echein, humas de sterêthênai hôn nun prokaloumetha. [2] eti d' ontôn akritôn** kai humin men doxês kai hêmeteras philias prosgignomenês, hêmin de pro aischrou tinos xumphoras metriôs katatithemenês** diallagômen**, kai autoi te anti+ polemou+ eirênên helômetha kai tois allois Hellêsin anapausin kakôn poiêsômen: hoi kai en toutôi humas aitiôterous hêgêsontai. polemountai** men gar asaphôs hopoterôn arxantôn*: kataluseôs de genomenês, hês nun humeis to pleon kurioi este, tên charin** humin prosthêsousin. [3] ên te gnôte**, Lakedaimoniois exestin humin philous genesthai bebaiôs, autôn te prokalesamenôn charisamenois te mallon ê biasamenois. [4] kai en toutôi ta enonta** agatha skopeite hosa eikos einai: hêmôn gar kai humôn tauta leontôn to ge allo Hellênikon iste hoti hupodeesteron on ta megista timêsei.’


    There are a total of 23 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
    book 4 (general note)
    book 4, chapter 20: ti hanêkeston
    book 4, chapter 20: ti hanêkeston

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    490 [Häufiger Gebrauch der Partiz. im Griechischen. — Partiz. st. des Verbi finiti. — Verbindung des Verbi finiti u. des Partizips von Verben gleichen Stammes. — Übergang der Partizipialkonstruktion in die des Verbi finiti. — Verbindung des Partizips mit Relativ- oder Fragpronomen.]

    Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
    2, 7, 3 [Commentary on Book 2]

    Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6:
    6, 4, 3

    Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
    8, 57, 1

    Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
    5, 26
    5, 28
    5, 31
    5, 34
    5, 89

    Cross references from Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary:
    7, 108

    Cross references from Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5:
    5, 15
    5, 26
    5, 37

    Cross references from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
    1, 132
    1, 39

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


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