History of the Peloponnesian War

For we Lacedaemonians, as thinking that we should come to men who in feeling, at any rate, were on our side, even before we actually joined them, and that we should be welcome to you, ran the great risk of making a march of many days through the country of strangers, and [*]( If the τε after κίνδυνον is to be retained, I think Haack's explanation of the passage the only one that can give it its true force, viz. that παρασχόμενοι is carelessly introduced instead of παρεσχόμεθα. If Poppo's objection to this be considered valid, I should then agree with him in omitting τε.) evinced all possible zeal:

and now, if you have aught else in mind, or if you should stand in the way of your own liberty, and that of the rest of the Greeks, it would be a hard case.