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

7.5 It is said, for instance, that once when the assembly was in session, the people sat out on the Pnyx a long while waiting for him to address them, and that late in the day he came in all garlanded for dinner and asked them to adjourn the assembly to the morrow. I’m busy to-day, he said, I’m going to entertain some guests, and have already sacrificed to the gods. The Athenians burst out laughing, then rose up and dissolved the assembly.

8.1 However, this time he had good fortune, served as general most successfully along with Demosthenes, and within the time which he had specified brought home as prisoners of war, their arms surrendered, all the Spartans on Sphacteria who had not fallen in battle. This success of Cleon’s brought great discredit on Nicias. He was thought not merely to have cast away his shield, but to have done something far more disgraceful and base in voluntarily throwing up his command out of cowardice, and in abandoning to his enemy the opportunity for so great a success,—actually voting himself out of office.