Νικίας

Sections

1.1 – 1.2 1.3 – 1.4 1.5 – 2.1 2.2 – 2.3 2.4 – 3.2 3.3 – 3.4 3.5 – 3.6 4.1 – 4.3 4.4 – 4.6 5.1 – 5.2 5.3 – 5.4 6.1 – 6.2 6.3 – 6.3 6.4 – 6.5 6.6 – 7.2 7.3 – 7.4 7.5 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.3 9.1 – 9.2 9.3 – 9.4 9.5 – 9.7 10.1 – 10.3 10.4 – 10.5 10.6 – 10.7 10.8 – 11.2 11.3 – 11.4 11.5 – 11.7 12.1 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.4 13.1 – 13.3 13.4 – 13.6 13.7 – 14.2 14.3 – 14.4 14.5 – 14.6 15.1 – 15.4 16.1 – 16.3 16.4 – 16.6 16.7 – 17.1 17.2 – 17.5 18.1 – 18.3 18.4 – 18.6 18.7 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.5 19.5 – 19.7 20.1 – 20.2 20.3 – 20.4 20.5 – 21.2 21.2 – 21.4 21.5 – 21.7 21.8 – 22.1 22.2 – 22.3 22.4 – 23.2 23.2 – 23.4 23.5 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.4 25.1 – 25.2 25.3 – 26.2 26.3 – 26.4 26.5 – 27.2 27.2 – 27.4 27.5 – 27.6 28.1 – 28.2 28.3 – 28.5 29.1 – 29.2 29.3 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.2

İngilizce Yunanca

6.1 He saw that the people, upon occasion, served their own turn with experienced men of eloquence or surpassing ability, but ever looked with suspicious and cautious eyes upon such powers, and tried to abate the pride and reputation to which they gave rise. This was manifest in their fining Pericles,Plut. Per. 35.4 and ostracising Damon,Cf. Plut. Per. 4.1-2. and discrediting, as most of them did, Antiphon the Rhamnusian,He was tried and executed for participation in the revolution of the Four Hundred (411 B.C.) and finally, above all, in the fate of Paches, the captor of Lesbos,In 427 B.C. (Thuc. 3.28).

6.2 who, while he was giving the official account of his generalship, drew his sword in the very court-room and slew himself. Nicias therefore tried to evade commands which were likely to be laborious and long, and whenever he did serve as general made safety his chief aim, and so was successful for the most part, as was natural. He did not, however, ascribe his achievements to any wisdom or ability or valor of his own, but rather credited them to fortune, and took modest refuge in the divine ordering of events, relinquishing thereby part of his reputation through fear of envy.