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Now both Athens and Lacedaemon incurred the hatred of their subjects and were plunged into war and confusion, but in these circumstances it will be found that our city, although attacked by all the Hellenes and by the barbarians as well, was able to hold out against them for ten years,1 while the Lacedaemonians, though still the leading power by land, after waging war against the Thebans alone and being defeated in a single battle,2 were stripped of all the possessions which they had held and involved in misfortunes and calamities which were very similar to these which overtook ourselves.3
1 The last decade of the Peloponnesian War, from what he terms the Decelean War, 413 B.C. （see Isoc. 8.37, 84, note.）, to the fall of Athens 404-403 B.C.
2 Leuctra, 371 B.C.
3 See Isoc. 8.105.
Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.
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