Πύρρος

Sections

1.1 – 1.4 2.1 – 2.3 2.4 – 2.6 3.1 – 3.3 3.4 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.3 4.4 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 5.4 – 5.6 5.7 – 6.2 6.3 – 6.5 7.1 – 7.3 7.4 – 7.5 8.1 – 8.2 8.3 – 8.4 8.5 – 9.1 9.2 – 10.1 10.2 – 10.3 10.4 – 10.5 11.1 – 11.3 11.4 – 11.5 11.6 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.4 12.5 – 12.6 12.7 – 13.1 13.2 – 13.3 13.4 – 13.6 14.1 – 14.3 14.4 – 14.6 14.7 – 15.1 15.2 – 15.4 15.5 – 16.2 16.3 – 16.5 16.6 – 16.7 16.8 – 16.10 17.1 – 17.2 17.3 – 17.5 18.1 – 18.3 18.4 – 18.6 19.1 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.5 20.1 – 20.2 20.3 – 20.3 20.4 – 20.5 21.1 – 21.2 21.3 – 21.5 21.6 – 21.7 21.8 – 21.10 22.1 – 22.2 22.3 – 22.4 22.5 – 23.1 23.2 – 23.3 23.4 – 23.5 23.6 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.4 25.1 – 25.2 25.3 – 25.5 26.1 – 26.2 26.3 – 26.4 26.5 – 26.6 26.7 – 26.8 26.9 – 26.11 27.1 – 27.2 27.3 – 27.5 28.1 – 28.2 28.3 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.3 29.4 – 29.5 29.6 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.4 30.5 – 30.6 31.1 – 31.3 32.1 – 32.2 32.3 – 32.4 32.5 – 33.2 33.3 – 33.5 33.6 – 34.2 34.3 – 34.4 34.5 – 34.6

İngilizce Yunanca

12.3 it is impossible to say. Nay, they are perpetually at war, because plots and jealousies are parts of their natures, and they treat the two words, war and peace, like current coins, using whichever happens to be for their advantage, regardless of justice; for surely they are better men when they wage war openly than when they give the names of justice and friendship to the times of inactivity and leisure which interrupt their work of injustice.

12.4 And Pyrrhus made this plain; for, setting himself to hinder the growing power of Demetrius, and trying to prevent its recovery, so to speak, from a serious illness, he went to the help of the Greeks and entered Athens. Here he went up to the acropolis and sacrificed to the goddess, then came down again on the same day, and told the people he was well pleased with the confidence and goodwill which they had shown him, but that in future, if they were wise, they would not admit any one of the kings into their city nor open their gates to him.