43.
We are now ourselves in the same situation in which you were, when we declared at
Sparta that every one so placed should be allowed to chastise his own allies; and we
claim to receive the same measure at your hands.
You were profited by our vote, and we ought not to be injured by yours.
[2]
Pay what you owe, knowing that this is our time of need, in which a man's best
friend is he who does him a service, he who opposes him, his worst enemy.
[3]
Do not receive these Corcyraeans into alliance in despite of us, and do not support
them in injustice.
[4]
In acting thus you will act rightly, and will consult your own true interests.'
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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