Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE SECOND BOOK, chapter 16

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16. The Athenians therefore had lived a long time governed by laws of their own country towns and, after they were brought into one, were nevertheless (both for the custom which most had, as well of the ancient time as since till the Persian war, to live in the country with their whole families; and also especially for that since the Persian war they had already repaired their houses and furniture) unwilling to remove. [2] It pressed them likewise and was heavily taken besides their houses to leave the things that pertained to their religion (which, since their old form of government, were become patrial) and to change their manner of life and to be no better than banished every man his city.

The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.

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Commentary references to this page (13):
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.4
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.57
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XIV
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.87
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.58
- Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.16
- Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.70
- Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.98
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.141
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.18
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.38
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.62
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.75
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE PARTICIPLE
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PARTICLES
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
Cross-references in notes to this page (2):
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
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- LSJ, ἀρχαῖος
- LSJ, δίαιτα
- LSJ, καταλείπω
- LSJ, κατασκευ-ή
- LSJ, μεταβάλλω
- LSJ, μετανά-στα^σις
- LSJ, μετέχω
- LSJ, οἴκ-ησις
- LSJ, οὖν
- LSJ, πάτριος
- LSJ, πα^νοικ-εσίᾳ
- LSJ, συνοικ-ίζω
- LSJ, χαλεπ-ός

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