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Persuasion we used in arranging that Hellenotamiae should be appointed at Athens to control the joint funds,1 that the allied fleet should assemble in our own harbor, and that such states as possessed no ships should be supplied with them by us: stealth in building our walls unknown to the Peloponnesians2: bribery in purchasing Sparta's acquiescence: and force in crushing our enemies; thus it was that we built up an empire over the whole nation. All these successes were achieved in eighty-five years.3
1 According to Thucydides （Thuc. 1.96） the Hellenotamiae were Athenian officials from the very start. But the evidence of the Quota-lists rather indicates that the office first became purely Athenian in 454, after the transference of the treasury of the League from Delos to Athens.
2 Apparently a reference to the famous trick of Themistocles when rebuilding the walls of Athens in the winter of 479 （Thuc. 1.90）. Thucydides, however, does not suggest that there was any danger of war from Sparta in consequence.
3 i.e. between 490 and 405, Marathon and Aegospotami.
Andocides. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes 1, Antiphon Andocides, with an English translation by K. J. Maidment, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1968.
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