Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, BOOK V, chapter 100

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100. Mel. 'Surely then, if you and your subjects will brave all this risk, you to preserve your¹ empire and they to be quit of it, how base and cowardly would it be in us, who retain our freedom, not to do and suffer anything rather than be your slaves.'

1 If you fight for empire and your subjects for freedom, shall we be slaves?

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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