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Headword: *summaxi/a. *summaxi/a
Adler number: sigma,1353
Translated headword: alliance; aggressive alliance
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An aggressive alliance [symmachia] differs from a defensive alliance [epimachia]. It is an aggressive alliance when someone has the same enemy and friend as the ally; but [it is] a defensive alliance when someone helps the ally only when the ally is wronged, and does not act with him when he is doing wrong.
Greek Original:
*summaxi/a. *summaxi/a e)pimaxi/as diafe/rei. kai/ e)stin me\n summaxi/a, o(/tan tis to\n au)to\n e)/xh| tw=| summaxoume/nw| e)xqro\n kai\ fi/lon: e)pimaxi/a de/, o(/tan tis mo/nw| tw=| summaxoume/nw| a)dikoume/nw| bohqh=| ou) me/ntoi kai\ a)dikou=nti sumpra/ttoi.
Notes:
From the scholia to Thucydides 1.44.1 (where, in 433 BCE, the Athenians decide to have not a symmachia but an epimachia with Corcyra).
Copied briefly, in reverse, to epsilon 2458.
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; law; military affairs; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 January 2014@08:33:45.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 30 January 2014@00:51:49.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 30 January 2014@02:58:31.
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