Andocides, On the Peace with Sparta, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 21

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[21] Now what are the terms available to ourselves, gentlemen? How is Sparta disposed to us? Here, if I am about to cause distress to any of you, I ask his forgiveness, as I shall be stating nothing but the facts. To begin with, when we lost our fleet on the Hellespont and were shut within our walls,¹ what did our present allies,² who were then on the Spartan side, propose to do with us? They proposed, did they not, to sell our citizens as slaves and make Attica a waste. And who was it who prevented this? The Spartans; they dissuaded the allies, and for their own part refused even to contemplate such measures.

On the Peace with Sparta. Andocides. ed. Kenneth John Maidment. London. 1941.

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On the Peace with Sparta (English) (Andocides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (1960 printing).)

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Περὶ τῆς πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους εἰρήνης Perseus (Andocides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (1960 printing).) — 21 focus

[21] ἡμῖν δέ, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, πῶς ἔξεστι τὴν εἰρήνην ποιήσασθαι; ποίων τινῶν Λακεδαιμονίων τυγχάνοντας; καὶ γὰρ εἴ τις ὑμῶν ἀχθεσθήσεται παραιτοῦμαι· τὰ¹ γὰρ ὄντα λέξω. πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ἡνίκα ἀπωλέσαμεν τὰς ναῦς ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ καὶ τειχήρεις ἐγενόμεθα, τίνα γνώμην ἔθεντο περὶ ἡμῶν οἱ νῦν μὲν ἡμέτεροι τότε δὲ Λακεδαιμονίων ὄντες σύμμαχοι; οὐ τὴν πόλιν ἡμῶν ἀνδραποδίζεσθαι καὶ τὴν χώραν ἐρημοῦν; οἱ δὲ διακωλύσαντες ταῦτα μὴ γενέσθαι τίνες ἦσαν; οὐ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, τοὺς μὲν συμμάχους ἀποτρέψαντες τῆς γνώμης, αὐτοὶ δʼ οὐδʼ ἐπιχειρήσαντες διαβουλεύσασθαι περὶ τοιούτων ἔργων;

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On the Peace with Sparta

1. The siege of Athens , which followed immediately after Aegospotami , lasted from September 405 to April 404.

2. Notably the Thebans and Corinthians.

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