[107] On account of these services it becomes all thinking men to be deeply grateful to us, much rather than to reproach us because of our system of colonization;
1
for we sent our colonies into the depopulated states for the protection of their territories and not for our own aggrandizement. And here is proof of this: We had in proportion to the number of our citizens a very small territory,
2
but a very great empire; we possessed twice as many ships of war as all the rest combined,
3
and these were strong enough to engage double their number; at the very borders of
Attica
lay
Euboea
,
Panegyricus. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.
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