Working on the oligarchic coup in Athens, 411 BCE, 8.66-69, as I notice news of Manchin's rejection of BBB. Lattimore's translation:
"as the work of numerous intelligent men, the undertaking not unnaturally went forward, although it was a major one; for it was difficult, in 1/
"as the work of numerous intelligent men, the undertaking not unnaturally went forward, although it was a major one; for it was difficult, in 1/
close to the 100th year after the tyrants were overthrown, to end the freedom of the Athenian people, who were not only not subjects but over more than half of that time had themselves been accustomed to rule over others."
"Not unnaturally" isn't quite right: "unreasonably" 2/
"Not unnaturally" isn't quite right: "unreasonably" 2/
or "improbably" gets the Greek better. Thucydides can be cruelly perceptive at figuring out what's "likely" or "probable," even when it's disturbing, like this successful coup. "Nature" had nothing to do with it.
So here, after BIF and BBB got unlinked, failure of BBB, too,3/
So here, after BIF and BBB got unlinked, failure of BBB, too,3/
became "not unlikely" in the hands of Manchin. This was predicted (as AOC said Nov 6). 4/
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