History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Thucydides. The history of the Peloponnesian War, Volume 1-2. Dale, Henry, translator. London: Heinemann and Henry G. Bohn, 1851-1852.
Ath.
Because you would have the benefit of submitting before you suffered the last extremities; while we should be gainers by not destroying you.