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τιμωρίαν λήγει. ὁ δὲ Θουκυδίδης ἀρχὴν μὲν ἐποιήσατο
ἀφ᾽ ἧς ἤρξατο κακῶς πράττειν τὸ Ἑλληνικόν: ὅπερ
Ἕλληνα ὄντα καὶ Ἀθηναῖον οὐκ ἔδει ποιεῖν （καὶ ταῦτα [p. 235]
οὐ τῶν ἀπερριμμένων ὄντα, ἀλλ᾽ ὧν ἐν πρώτοις ἦγον
Ἀθηναῖοι στρατηγιῶν τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τιμῶν ἀξιοῦντες）: καὶ οὕτω γε φθονερῶς, ὥς2τε καὶ τῇ πόλει τῇ
ἑαυτοῦ τὰς φανερὰς αἰτίας τοῦ πολέμου περιάπτειν,
ἑτέραις ἔχοντα πολλαῖς ἀφορμαῖς περιάψαι τὰς αἰτίας,
καὶ ἄρξασθαί γε τῆς διηγήσεως μὴ ἀπὸ τῶν Κερκυραϊκῶν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ τῶν κρατίστων τῆς πατρίδος ἔργων, ἃ
μετὰ τὸν Περσικὸν πόλεμον εὐθὺς ἔπραξεν （ὧν ὕστερον οὐκ ἐν ἐπιτηδείῳ τόπῳ μνήμην ἐποιήσατο φαύλως
πως καὶ ἐξ ἐπιδρομῆς）, διελθόντα δὲ ταῦτα μετὰ πολλῆς εὐνοίας ὡς ἄνδρα φιλόπολιν ἔπειτ᾽ ἐπενεγκεῖν,
ὅτι τούτων φθόνῳ καὶ δέει προελθόντες Λακεδαιμόνιοι προφάσεις ὑποθέντες ἑτεροίας ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὸν
πόλεμον, καὶ τότε λέγειν τὰ Κερκυραϊκὰ καὶ τὸ κατὰ
Μεγαρέων ψήφισμα καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο τοιοῦτο λέγειν
Dionysii Halicarnasei Quae Exstant, Volumen Sextum. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Ludwig Radermacher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1904. Keyboarding.
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