History of the Peloponnesian War

But we propose to you that we should be your friends, and the enemies of neither party; and that you should retire from our country after making such a treaty as may appear suitable for both sides.

Such then was the answer which the Melians gave. The Athenians, now departing from the conference, said:

Well then you are the only men who by these counsels, as appears to us, consider what is future as more certain than what is seen, and regard what is out of sight as already occurring, because you wish it; and having staked and relied most on [ [*]( These words are, I think, implied by the omission of the article before the following nouns.) such things as] Lacedaemonians, and fortune, and hopes, you will also be most disappointed.