Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Equal to Our Fathers
Thucydides 2.11.2 (speech of the Spartan king Archidamus; tr. Martin Hammond):
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We must not, then, show ourselves inferior to our fathers or fall short of our own reputation.The same (tr. Jeremy Mynott):
δίκαιον οὖν ἡμᾶς μήτε τῶν πατέρων χείρους φαίνεσθαι μήτε ἡμῶν αὐτῶν τῆς δόξης ἐνδεεστέρους.
We have a duty, therefore, both to show ourselves the equals of our fathers and to live up to our own reputations.
