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ἐπειδὴ δὲ καὶ τῆς γνώμης κατηγοροῦσί μου προδοσίαν μὲν οὐ τολμῶντες ἐπικαλεῖν οὐδ᾽ ἀνανδρίαν, ἐφ᾽ οἷς αἱ κατὰ τῶν ἄλλων στρατηγῶν γίνονται κρίσεις, ἀπειρίαν δὲ τοῦ στρατηγεῖν καὶ ἀφροσύνην, ὅτι κίνδυνον ὑπέμεινα οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον ἐπὶ τὸν χάρακα τῶν πολεμίων ὠσάμενος, βούλομαι καὶ περὶ τούτου λόγον ὑποσχεῖν ὑμῖν, προχειρότατον μὲν τοῦτ᾽ ἔχων εἰπεῖν, ὅτι τὸ μὲν ἐπιτιμᾶν τοῖς γενομένοις πάνυ ῥᾴδιον καὶ παντὸς ἀνθρώπου, τὸ δὲ παραβάλλεσθαι πράγμασι καλοῖς χαλεπὸν καὶ ὀλίγων: καὶ ὅτι οὐχ ὥσπερ τὰ γεγονότα φαίνεται, ὁποῖά ἐστιν, οὕτω καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα, ὁποῖα ἔσται: ἀλλ᾽ ἐκεῖνα μὲν αἰσθήσει καὶ πάθεσι καταλαμβανόμεθα, ταῦτα δὲ μαντείαις καὶ δόξαις εἰκάζομεν, ἐν αἷς πολὺ τὸ ἀπατηλόν: καὶ ὅτι ῥᾷστον ἁπάντων ἐστὶ λόγῳ στρατηγεῖν πολέμους ἔξω τοῦ δεινοῦ
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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