Excerpt from The Fifth Book of Thucydides: Edited With Notes Policy. Melos was a Dorian colony, which had been throughout independent of Athens, though taking no part against her. The Athenians make no profession of diste garded claims or injuries which called for Vengeance. No law divine or human has any power to hold them back; justice, equity and mercy are but idle words. They simply parade their overpowering strength, and offer the choice of surrender or destruction. In the display of their arrogance and impiety, their reckless greed and lawless confidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.