Histories

If, therefore, you will not straightway agree with them, when the conditions which they offer you are so great, I fear what may befall you. For of all the allies you dwell most in the very path of the war, and you alone will never escape destruction, your country being marked out for a battlefield.

No, rather follow his counsel, for it is not to be lightly regarded by you who are the only men in Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas whose offenses the great king is ready to forgive and whose friend he would be.”

These were the words of Alexander. The Lacedaemonians, however, had heard that Alexander had come to Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens to bring the Athenians to an agreement with the barbarian. Remembering the oracles, how that they themselves with the rest of the Dorians must be driven out of the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese by the Medes and the Athenians, they were greatly afraid that the Athenians should agree with the Persian, and they straightway resolved that they would send envoys.