Ways and Means

Sections

1.1 – 1.3 1.4 – 1.8 2.1 – 2.4 2.5 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.5 3.6 – 3.9 3.10 – 3.14 4.1 – 4.4 4.5 – 4.8 4.9 – 4.13 4.14 – 4.18 4.19 – 4.21 4.22 – 4.24 4.25 – 4.29 4.30 – 4.33 4.34 – 4.39 4.40 – 4.42 4.43 – 4.46 4.47 – 4.50 4.51 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.5 5.6 – 5.10 5.11 – 5.13 6.1 – 6.3

İngilizce Yunanca

5.2 If any are inclined to think that a lasting peace for our city will involve a loss of her power and glory and fame in Greece, they too, in my opinion, are out in their calculations. For I presume that those states are reckoned the happiest that enjoy the longest period of unbroken peace; and of all states Athens is by nature most suited to flourish in peace.

5.3 For if the state is tranquil, what class of men will not need her? Shipowners and merchants will head the list. Then there will be those rich in corn and wine and oil and cattle; men possessed of brains and money to invest; craftsmen and professors and

5.4 philosophers; poets and the people who make use of their works; those to whom anything sacred or secular appeals that is worth seeing or hearing. Besides, where will those who want to buy or sell many things quickly meet with better success in their efforts than at Athens?

5.5 No one, I dare say, contests this; but there are some who wish the state to recover her ascendancy, and they may think that it is more likely to be won by war than by peace. Let such, in the first place, call to mind the Persian Wars. Was it by coercing the Greeks or by rendering services to them that we became leaders of the fleet and treasurers of the league funds?