Isocrates Panegyricus 122

[122] Reflecting on these things, we may well be indignant at the present state of affairs, and yearn for our lost supremacy: and we may well blame the Lacedaemonians because, although in the beginning they entered upon the war ¹ with the avowed intention ² of freeing the Hellenes, in the end they delivered so many of them into bondage, and because they induced the Ionians to revolt from Athens , the mother city from which the Ionians emigrated and by whose influence they were often preserved from destruction, and then betrayed them ³ to the barbarians—those barbarians in despite of whom they possess their lands and against whom they have never ceased to war.