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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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LXVIII. The man who moved this resolution was Pisander, who was throughout the chief ostensible agent in putting down the democracy. But he who concerted the whole affair, and prepared the way for the catastrophe, and who had given the greatest thought to the matter, was Antiphon, one of the best men of his day in Athens; who, with a head to contrive measures and a tongue to recommend them, did not willingly come forward in the assembly or upon any public scene, being ill-looked upon by the multitude owing to his reputation for talent; and who yet was the one man best able to aid in the courts, or before the assembly, the suitors who required his opinion. [2] Indeed, when he was afterwards himself tried for his life on the charge of having been concerned in setting up this very government, when the Four Hundred were overthrown and hardly dealt with by the commons, he made what would seem to be the best defence of any known up to my time. [3] Phrynichus also went beyond all others in his zeal for the oligarchy. Afraid of Alcibiades, and assured that he was no stranger to his intrigues with Astyochus at Samos, he held that no oligarchy was ever likely to restore him, and once embarked in the enterprise, proved, where danger was to be faced, by far the staunchest of them all. [4] Theramenes, son of Hagnon, was also one of the foremost of the subverters of the democracy--a man as able in council as in debate. Conducted by so many and by such sagacious heads, the enterprise, great as it was, not unnaturally went forward; although it was no light matter to deprive the Athenian people of its freedom, almost a hundred years after the deposition of the tyrants, when it had been not only not subject to any during the whole of that period, but accustomed during more than half of it to rule over subjects of its own.

There are a total of 33 comments on and cross references to this page.

Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
1088 [SUPERLATIVE]
1752 [PASSIVE VOICE]: hup oligarchias katelthein
2050 [THE ATTRIBUTIVE PARTICIPLE]: ho tên gnômên tautên eipôn

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
401: ho tên gnômên eipôn
1380: pleista eis anêr, hostis xumbouleusaito ti, dunamenos ôphelein

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
349b [Bemerkungen über die Komparation der Adjektive, Adverbien und Verben.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
* [516-1057]

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 54, 2
8, 89, 3
8, 90, 1
8, 76, 5
8, 27, 5
8, 86, 4
8, 89, 2
8, 89, 2

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
4, 89

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
5, 11
5, 16

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
peloponnesian-war [Peloponnesian War]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
41 [Imperfect.]: ên ho tên gnômên tautên eipôn Peisandros
825 [Attributive Participle.]

Cross references from J.F. Dobson, The Greek Orators:
2, 1 [Life]

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos:
1, 1 [Introduction]

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
Andocides, 2, 15 [Peri tês heautou kathodou]
Isocrates, 4, 170 [Panêgurikos]

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This text is based on the following book(s):
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.