Polybius, Histories

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Book 9 - Chapter 21

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<w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="toiau%2Fths">τοιαύτης</w> <w lemma="diaqe%2Fsews">διαθέσεως</w> <w lemma="u%28parxou%2Fshs">ὑπαρχούσης</w> <w lemma="peri%2F">περί</w> <w lemma="te">τε</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="%2A%28rwmai%2Fous">Ῥωμαίους</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="%2Akarxhdoni%2Fous">Καρχηδονίους</w>, <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="palintro%2Fpwn">παλιντρόπων</w> <w lemma="e%28kate%2Frois">ἑκατέροις</w> <w lemma="e%29k">ἐκ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="u%28po%5C">ὑπὸ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="tu%2Fxhs">τύχης</w> <w lemma="a%29pantwme%2Fnwn">ἀπαντωμένων</w> <w lemma="e%29nalla%5Cc">ἐναλλὰξ</w> <w lemma="prospipto%2Fntwn">προσπιπτόντων</w>, <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="poihth%5Cn">ποιητὴν</w> <w lemma="a%28%2Fma">ἅμα</w> <w lemma="lu%2Fphn">λύπην</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="xara%5Cn">χαρὰν</w> <w lemma="u%28potre%2Fxein">ὑποτρέχειν</w> <w lemma="ei%29ko%5Cs">εἰκὸς</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dn">ἦν</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="e%28ka%2Fstwn">ἑκάστων</w> <w lemma="yuxa%2Fs">ψυχάς</w>.
Such being the respective positions of the Romans and Carthaginians, experiencing in turn the opposite extremes of fortune, it was natural that, as Homer says, pain and joy at once should possess the minds of each. . . .