I think this is Pericles' idea.

这大概是伯利克里的主意
Because I mean everything that I'm going to point to

因为我将要指出的所有观点
that's so unusual and unheard of before

那些创新的决策
Pericles is involved with it,

与伯利克里都有关联
and I think he just had that kind of mind,

我觉得他就是有这种才能
very inventive, ready to find new ways to meet old problems.

创新为老问题找到新的解决方法
I think this was his notion

我认为这是他的想法
and I'm convinced it was his determination

我也相信这是他的决断
that this would be the case

这将作为例案
that in the future there would not be a settlement of differences

以后的和解
by the threat of war, but by arbitration

不是靠战争的威胁而是仲裁委员会决定
that helps explain the very determined position he will take in 431.

解释了他在公元前431年做出的一个决断