Freedom versus subjection
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bondage · free · freedom versus enslavement · liberty · liberty and slavery · servitude · slave · slavery
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The recurring opposition between political freedom and subjection, applied to both the tyrannicide and the Sicilian cities' choice regarding Athens.
And so they did not withstand the Mede for the sake of liberty—neither these men for that of the Greeks, nor the Greeks for their own—but the former did it to enslave the Greeks to themselves, instead of to the Mede;
for they hoped that if any number whatever dared to make the attempt, even those who were not before privy to it would be willing at the moment, inasmuch as they had arms in their hands, to join in effecting their own freedom.
Consider then, and choose at once, either immediate slavery without any peril, or the chance of gaining the victory with us, and so avoiding a disgraceful submission to these men as your masters, as also of escaping our enmity, which would be of no trivial kind.
Cyropaedia
Political and personal freedom contrasted with servitude, bondage, and the consequences of failed rebellion.
it is a noble thing to fight that one may never be in danger of becoming a slave.
Why, just now, when I was striving to secure liberty, I became more a slave than ever before;
for it seemed to me to be a glorious thing both to be free myself and to bequeath liberty to my children.