Aeschines On the Embassy 175

[175] But again we were persuaded to go to war, now because of the Megarians. ¹ Having given up our land to be ravaged, and suffering great privations, we longed for peace, and finally concluded it through Nicias, the son of Niceratus. ² In the period that followed we again deposited treasure in the Acropolis, seven thousand talents, thanks to this peace, and we acquired triremes, seaworthy and fully equipped, no fewer than three hundred in number; a yearly tribute of more than twelve hundred talents came in to us; we held the Chersonese , Naxos , and Euboea , and in these years we sent out a host of colonies.