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54.
Nevertheless, we will place before you what we can justly urge, not only on
the question of the quarrel which the Thebans have against us, but also as
addressing you and the rest of the Hellenes; and we will remind you of our good services, and endeavor to prevail with
you.
[2]
To your short question, whether we have done
the Lacedaemonians and allies any service in this war, we say, if you ask us
as enemies, that to refrain from serving you was not to do you injury; if as friends, that you are more in fault for having marched against us.
[3]
During the peace, and against the Mede, we acted well: we have not now been
the first to break the peace, and we were the only Boeotians who then joined
in defending against the Mede the liberty of Hellas.
[4]
Although an inland people, we were present at the action at Artemisium; in the battle that took place in our territory we fought by the side of
yourselves and Pausanias; and in all the other Hellenic exploits of the time we took a part quite out
of proportion to our strength.
[5]
Besides, you, as Lacedaemonians, ought not to forget that at the time of
the great panic at Sparta, after the earthquake, caused by the secession of
the Helots to Ithome, we sent the third part of our citizens to assist you.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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