Isocrates, On the Peace, George Norlin (Translator), 84

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[84] For they reached such a degree of neglect of their own possessions and of covetousness of the possessions of other states that when the Lacedaemonians had invaded our territory and the fortifications at Decelea¹ had already been built, they manned triremes to send to Sicily ² and were not ashamed to permit their own country to be cut off and plundered³ by the enemy while dispatching an expedition against a people who had never in any respect offended against us.

On the Peace. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.

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[84] εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ κατὲστησαν τῶν μὲν οἰκείων ἀμελείας τῶν δʼ ἀλλοτρίων ἐπιθυμίας, ὥστε Λακεδαιμονίων εἰσβεβληκότων εἰς τὴν χώραν καὶ τοῦ τείχους ἤδη τοῦ Δεκελειᾶσιν ἑστηκότος εἰς Σικελίαν τριήρεις ἐπλήρουν, καὶ οὐκ ᾐσχύνοντο τὴν μὲν πατρίδα τεμνομένην καὶ πορθουμένην περιορῶντες, ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺς οὐδὲν πώποτʼ εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐξαμαρτόντας στρατιὰν ἐκπέμποντες,

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On the Peace

1. This strong position on the slope of Mt. Parnes in Attica was seized and fortified by the Spartans as an outpost from which to raid Athenian territory in 413 B.C.

2. The original expedition to Sicily was dispatched in 415 B.C. Strong reinforcements were, however, sent at the time Decelea was fortified by the Spartans. See Thuc. 7.20 .

3. See Isoc. 8.92 .

Isocrates On the Peace 84

George Norlin (Translator)

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