History of the Peloponnesian War

but as it is, why need we speak at any great length, when you see that some of us are already enslaved, and that they are plotting against others, and especially against our allies, and have been for a long time prepared beforehand, in case they should ever go to war.

For they would not else have stolen Corcyra from us, and kept it in spite of us, and besieged Potidaea; of which places, the one is the most convenient for their deriving the full benefit from their possessions Thrace-ward, [*]( Arnold translates it, so as to give you the full benefit of your dominion in the neighbourhood of Thrace. But could the Lacedaemonians be said to have any such dominion, at any rate before the expedition of Brasidas? and does not the πελοποννησίοις in the next sentence seem to he put emphatically, as in opposition to the Athenian dominion just alluded to?) and the other would have supplied the largest navy to the Peloponnesians.