Funeral Oration

And in misfortunes also they displayed their accustomed valor. For when the ships were destroyed in the Hellespont[*](At Aegospotami, 405 B.C.)—whether it was through the fault of the commander or by the design of Heaven—and that supreme disaster overtook not only us, who suffered that misfortune, but all the rest of the Greeks, it became evident shortly after that the power of our city was the salvation of Greece.