History of the Peloponnesian War

When all was ready, Gylippus likewise and the other commanders used unto their soldiers this hortative:

"That not only our former acts have been honourable, but that we are to fight now also for further honour, men of Syracuse and confederates, the most of you seem to know already; for else you never would so valiantly have undergone it; and if there be any man that is not so sensible of it as he ought, we will make it appear unto him better.