Thucydides

” We find Thucydides of the same opinion, “that anciently lighter punishments were inflicted for the greatest crimes;

The moral power then of governing a state, which is called by Thucydides the civil power, is described as consisting of three parts which form the necessary substance of every state;

” In the heroic times most of the kingdoms in Greece were of this description, as we are informed by Thucydides.

Thucydides, an Athenian wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, how they warred against each other;

For even after the Trojan war Greece was still moving about, and settling itself;

And it is composed as a possession for ever, rather than as a prizetask to listen to at the present moment.

when they name the Sciritan company of the Lacedaemonians, which never existed, as Thucydides says, and the Athenians honor Harmodius and Aristogeiton most of all, as having freed the city and killed the tyrant.

as did Hecataeus and Herodotus and Thucydides — and he, indeed, not once only at the beginning of the history, but often, declaring solemnly at each winter and summer that "Thucydides composed these things" — but he was so free and magnanimous that he will nowhere be found making mention of his own poetry, but in truth, like the prophets of the gods, uttering his words from somewhere unseen and inaccessible.

But of the foremost, Thucydides seems to me the best, and of the second rank Theopompus.

Contra autem Thucydides eam terram quae in divisione populo nulli obvenit, αόριστον, hoc est, indefinitam, et limitibus nullis circumscriptam vocat.

” On the other hand Thucydides calls the land which in the division falls to no nation, ἀόριστος, that is, undefined, and undetermined by boundaries.

Thucydides I, 139, 2.

Yes, and when Thucydides had said, "to have alone faced the danger at Marathon," Demosthenes said, "By those who faced the danger at Marathon.

" Whence Thucydides too in the Histories says, "Most men are wont, when unlooked-for prosperity comes to them suddenly and at the least cost, to turn to insolence.

For being harassed by the false and malicious charges of this man at the time when some of them were turning to Philip and others to Athens, and learning that the decree which Charinus had previously indicted had again been indicted as illegal,—the decree, that is, which Thucydides proposed and which had to do with their contribution;

these provisions regarding those who bring malicious charges shall be in force unless Theocrines, a criminal information having been laid against him, shall see fit to denounce Thucydides or Demosthenes or any other of the men in public life, I should have kept quiet;

Well, he will presently say that the criminal information has been lodged against him for this purpose, that he may not proceed with the indictment which he preferred against Demosthenes or with that against Thucydides;