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1.1 – 1.2 2.1 – 2.3 2.4 – 3.1 3.2 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.5 5.1 – 5.3 5.4 – 6.1 6.2 – 6.4 6.5 – 6.7 7.1 – 7.2 7.3 – 8.2 8.3 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.3 9.4 – 10.1 10.2 – 10.4 10.5 – 11.2 11.3 – 11.5 11.6 – 12.1 12.2 – 12.3 12.4 – 12.6 12.7 – 13.2 13.3 – 13.4 13.5 – 14.1 14.2 – 14.3 14.4 – 14.6 15.1 – 15.3 15.4 – 15.5 16.1 – 16.2 17.1 – 17.3 17.4 – 17.5 17.6 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.4 18.5 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.5 19.6 – 20.1 20.2 – 20.4 20.5 – 21.1 21.2 – 21.4 22.1 – 22.3 22.4 – 22.5 22.6 – 23.2 23.3 – 23.4 23.5 – 23.6 23.7 – 23.9 24.1 – 24.3 24.4 – 25.1 25.2 – 25.4 26.1 – 26.2 26.3 – 26.4 27.1 – 27.1 27.2 – 27.4 28.1 – 28.2 28.3 – 28.4 28.5 – 28.6 29.1 – 29.3 29.4 – 29.6 29.7 – 30.2 30.3 – 30.4 30.5 – 30.5

İngilizce Yunanca

8.3 But in this he was playing a shifty part, wishing the leading men of the popular party not to fly, but to remain in the city and be slain. And this was what actually happened; for all who put their trust in him were slaughtered. Furthermore, there is a saying of Lysander’s, recorded by Androcleides, which makes him guilty of the greatest recklessness in the matter of oaths.

8.4 It was his policy, according to this authority, to cheat boys with knuckle-bones, but men with oaths, thus imitating Polycrates of Samos; not a proper attitude in a general towards a tyrant, nor yet a Laconian trait to treat the gods as one’s enemies are treated, nay, more outrageously still; since he who overreaches his enemy by means of an oath, confesses that he fears that enemy, but despises God.

9.1 Well, then, Cyrus summoned Lysander to Sardis, and gave him this, and promised him that, ardently protesting, to gratify him, that he would actually squander his own fortune, if his father gave him nothing for the Spartans; and if all else failed, he said he would cut up the throne on which he sat when giving audience, a throne covered with gold and silver.