So imagine if Thucydides were watching planet Earth today.

所以想象一下， 如果修昔底德今天正在观察地球。

Most of our information on this plague comes from  Thucydides, a Greek historian who survived the plague.

我们关于这场瘟疫的大部分信息都来自修昔底德，一位在瘟疫中幸存下来的希腊历史学家。

Such a world does not require an idealistic Platonic response, but a historical response, of the kind found in Thucydides.

这样的世界不需要柏拉图式的唯心主义回应，而是修昔底德式的历史回应。

Of course, these words bring to mind Pericles' funeral oration over the war dead as it is recorded in Thucydides.

当然，这些话让人想起修昔底德 (Thucydides) 中记录的伯里克利 (Pericles) 对战死者的葬礼演说。

As for the poets, they have Aristophanes, Homer, Euripides, and Sophocles of Aldus's edition; and for historians, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Herodian.

至于诗人，他们有阿里斯托芬、荷马、欧里庇得斯和阿尔都斯版本的索福克勒斯；对于历史学家，修昔底德、希罗多德和希律王。

The judgment of Thucydides, that both Europe and Asia could not resist the Scythians united, has been verified by the experience of all ages.

修昔底德关于欧洲和亚洲都无法抵抗斯基泰人联合的判断，已经为历代的经验所验证。

12. Thucydides, On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Paul Woodruff (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 1993), 42.

12. 修昔底德，论正义、权力和人性：伯罗奔尼撒战争史选集，译。 Paul Woodruff（印第安纳州印第安纳波利斯：Hackett Publishing，1993 年），42。

In 1762, during Jay's third year, the Oxford classicist Myles Cooper replaced Johnson as president, and so he spent his final year and a half in college studying Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides.

1762年， 杰伊就读三年级， 牛津古典学家迈尔斯·库珀取代约翰逊成为校长，因此他在大学里度过了最后一年半的时间，学习荷马、希罗多德和修昔底德。

There is much talk of the " Thucydides trap" : the inevitability of a clash between a rising power and an established one, as Athens challenged Sparta in the fifth century bc.

人们经常谈论“修昔底德陷阱”：当雅典在公元前五世纪挑战斯巴达时，新兴大国与老牌大国之间不可避免地发生冲突。

So in one of the most famous passages of Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians sailed to the island of Melos, a Spartan colony, and demanded that the Melians submit to Athenian rule.

于是在修昔底德笔下伯罗奔尼撒战争史上最著名的一段话中，雅典人航行到斯巴达殖民地梅洛斯岛，要求梅利斯人服从雅典人的统治。