1 For ourselves we have no fears. It is you who have to learn the lesson of wheat is expedient both for us and you.
2 Taking ἔστ δὲ . . .ὁ ἀγών as a parenthesis and giving a different sense to πονand αὐτοί. Or, 'And we are fighting not so much against the Lacedaemonians, as against our own subjects who may some day rise up and overcome their former masters.'
3 Taking ἔστ δὲ . . . ὁ ἀγών as a parenthesis and giving a different sense to πονand αὐτοί. Or, 'And we are fighting not so much against the Lacedaemonians, as against our own subjects who may some day rise up and overcome their former masters.'
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