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[47] And while that other deed was also noble, when you checked the insolence of Eurystheus and preserved the sons of Heracles,1 would it not surely be an even nobler one if you saved from perishing, not merely the founders, but the whole state as well? And noblest of all deeds if, after the Lacedaemonians saved you then by a2 vote, void of danger, you shall aid them now with arms and at the risk of your lives.

1 The sons of Heracles, driven from Peloponnesus by Eurystheus, found protection and aid at Athens.

2 370 B.C.

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 1 and 2. Carleton L. Brownson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. vol. 1:1918; vol. 2: 1921.

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