History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes (Translator). London. 1843.
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History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes (Translator). London. 1843.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
The History of the Grecian War (English) (Thucydides. The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Hobbes, Thomas. translator. London: John Bohn, 1843.)
τάδε —viz. the proposals about to be made.
πλέον νείμαντες —see c. 3, 1 n.
οὐδὲ ἐγώ —see c. 40, 2.
προσάγεσθαι —middle, as regularly in this sense; the indef. subject must be supplied.
ἀπέπεμψεν —see c. 37, 1.
καθ’ ἡσυχίαν —‘calmly.’
τοῖς πολεμίοις —thinking of the Peloponnesians. That Athens should show wisdom (1) calmly judging the guilty, (2) acquitting the democratic party, would be more effective against her enemies than a hasty exercise of brute strength, of vis consili expers.
πρὸς τοὺς ἐναντίους is to be taken with κρείσσων ἐστί.
ἐπιών —‘if he goes to work.’