History of the Peloponnesian War

And now, I beg that I may not be the worse thought of by any among you, because I am now strenuously attacking my country with its bitterest enemies, though I formerly had a reputation for patriotism;

and that my words may not be suspected on the score of an exile's forwardness. For though I am an exile, as regards the villany of those who banished me, I am not one, as regards assistance to you, if you will be persuaded by me:

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.