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.

Mel.

But would you not accept our proposals, on condition of our remaining quiet, and being friends instead of enemies, but in alliance with neither side?