These were by no means inconsiderable, and might fairly be used. To this he added the treasures of the other temples. And I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth. Athens’ enemy has now established a base camp within its borders. Neither were the physicians at first of any service, ignorant as they were of the proper way to treat it, but they died themselves the most thickly, as they visited the sick most often; nor did any human art succeed any better. The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. Chios fights with Athens but is defeated by Sparta’s Astyochus, who refuses to help them in their fight against Athens at first, but then changes his mind after they are beaten by the slaves of Chios. And yet if with habits not of labour but of ease, and courage not of art but of nature, we are still willing to encounter danger, we have the double advantage of escaping the experience of hardships in anticipation and of facing them in the hour of need as fearlessly as those who are never free from them. Also during this time, Athens was able to force smaller states into tributary alliances because Athens bore the brunt of fighting against Persia and left them dependent on them. In the first place, the Peloponnesians, already defeated, and not even themselves thinking that they are a match for us, have not ventured to meet us on equal terms, but have equipped this multitude of ships against us. And surely, to a man of spirit, the degradation of cowardice must be immeasurably more grievous than the unfelt death which strikes him in the midst of his strength and patriotism! Sparta invades Attica. Lastly, there are few parts of our dominions that have not been augmented by those of us here, who are still more or less in the vigour of life; while the mother country has been furnished by us with everything that can enable her to depend on her own resources whether for war or for peace. Supplications in the temples, divinations, and so forth were found equally futile, till the overwhelming nature of the disaster at last put a stop to them altogether. 36"I shall begin with our ancestors: it is both just and proper that they should have the honour of the first mention on an occasion like the present. Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters; for, unlike any other nation, regarding him who takes no part in these duties not as unambitious but as useless, we Athenians are able to judge at all events if we cannot originate, and, instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling-block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all. But if they passed this stage, and the disease descended further into the bowels, inducing a violent ulceration there accompanied by severe diarrhoea, this brought on a weakness which was generally fatal. 79The same summer and simultaneously with the expedition against Plataea, the Athenians marched with two thousand heavy infantry and two hundred horse against the Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace and the Bottiaeans, just as the corn was getting ripe, under the command of Xenophon, son of Euripides, with two colleagues. View All Titles. In short, what was nominally a democracy became in his hands government by the first citizen. When they hear this sound, they think that their defenses have been breached and flee back onto their ships. Indeed it was actually asserted that the departure of the Peloponnesians was hastened by fear of the disorder; as they heard from deserters that it was in the city, and also could see the burials going on. These take as your model and, judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valour, never decline the dangers of war. Sparta and its allies win the battle after suffering fewer losses than their opponents. The inroads of the Peloponnesians into Attica had not had the desired effect of making the Athenians raise the siege. With this force Cnemus set out, without waiting for the fleet from Corinth. At all events they resolved to attempt it. They argue about it for years until Corcyra wins. Before this the city consisted of the present citadel and the district beneath it looking rather towards the south. Athens sent reinforcements to Syracuse, which led to success at Epipolae. On their arrival, the Athenians, afraid that Aristeus, who had been notably the prime mover in the previous affairs of Potidaea and their Thracian possessions, might live to do them still more mischief if he escaped, slew them all the same day, without giving them a trial or hearing the defence which they wished to offer, and cast their bodies into a pit; thinking themselves justified in using in retaliation the same mode of warfare which the Lacedaemonians had begun, when they slew and cast into pits all the Athenian and allied traders whom they caught on board the merchantmen round Peloponnese. 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