Kitap 6
92.3
and the party hostile to me was, not you, who only hurt your foes, but rather they who compelled their friends to become their foes. My patriotism, too, I keep not ἐν ᾧ] Or, as Arnold renders it, in a state where, etc.; but the expression is much more commonly significant of time than of condition. Compare I. 39, οὓς χρῆν ὅτε ἀσφαλέστατοι ἦσαν, τότε προσίεναι, καὶ μὴ ἐν ᾧ ἡμεῖς μὲν ἠδικήμεθα, οὗτοι δὲ κινδονεύουσι, μηδ᾽ ἐν ᾧ υμεῖς ... αἰτίας τὸ ἴσον ἕξετε, πάλαι δὲ κ. τ. λ. There is, however, so close a connexion between the ideas of a particular period and of the circumstances by which it is characterized, that it is sometimes of comparatively little importance which of the two is supposed to be expressed. at a time when I am being wronged, but only while I enjoyed my civil rights in security.
92.4
Nor do I consider myself to be going against what is still my country, but much rather to be recovering that country which is mine no more. And the patriot, in the true sense, is not that man who, when he has unjustly lost his country, abstains from aggression upon it, but he who, because of his longing for it, endeavours by all means to regain it.
