_Passage of Thucydides on the Greek Factions_ (Vol. vii., p. 594.).--The
passage alluded to by SIR A. ALISON appears to be the celebrated
description of the moral effects produced by the conflicts of the Greek
factions, which is subjoined to the account of the Corcyraean sedition,
iii. 82. The quotation must, however, have been made from memory, and it is
amplified and expanded from the original. The words adverted to seem to be:
[Greek: mellesis de promethes deilia euprepes, to de sophron tou
anandrou proschema, kai to pros hapan xuneton epi pan argon.]
Thucydides, however, proceeds to say that the cunning which enabled a man
to plot with success against an enemy, or still more to discover his
hostile purposes, was highly esteemed.