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91.
At first the Lacedaemonians trusted the words of Themistocles, through
their friendship for him; but when others arrived, all distinctly declaring that the work was going
on and already attaining some elevation, they did not know how to disbelieve
it.
[2]
Aware of this, he told them that rumors are deceptive, and should not be
trusted; they should send some reputable persons from Sparta to inspect, whose
report might be trusted.
[3]
They despatched them accordingly.
Concerning these Themistocles secretly sent word to the Athenians to detain
them as far as possible without putting them under open constraint, and not
to let them go until they had themselves returned.
For his colleagues had now joined him, Abronichus, son of Lysicles, and
Aristides, son of Lysimachus, with the news that the wall was sufficiently
advanced; and he feared that when the Lacedaemonians heard the facts, they might
refuse to let them go.
[4]
So the Athenians detained the envoys according to his message, and
Themistocles had an audience with the Lacedaemonians, and at last openly
told them that Athens was now fortified sufficiently to protect its
inhabitants; that any embassy which the Lacedaemonians or their allies might wish to
send to them, should in future proceed on the assumption that the people to
whom they were going was able to distinguish both its own and the general
interests.
[5]
That when the Athenians thought fit to abandon their city and to embark in
their ships, they ventured on that perilous step without consulting them; and that on the other hand, wherever they had deliberated with the
Lacedaemonians, they had proved themselves to be in judgment second to none.
[6]
That they now thought it fit that their city should have a wall, and that
this would be more for the advantage of both the citizens of Athens and the
Hellenic confederacy;
[7]
for without equal military strength it was impossible to contribute equal
or fair counsel to the common interest.
It followed, he observed, either that all the members of the confederacy
should be without walls, or that the present step should be considered a
right one.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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