("Agamemnon", "Hom. And this is likewise declared by Homer (if any think his testimony sufficient), who, at the delivery of the scepter unto him, calleth him, ‘. they love to be abroad, and you at home the most of any. And then first came up amongst the Athenians the office of treasurers of Greece, who were receivers of the tribute, for so they called this money contributed. that they would do nothing on command, but were ready to answer their accusations upon equal terms by way of arbitrament. Likewise they made war on the Carystians alone without the rest of the Euboeans, and those also after a time came in by composition. For a long war for the most part endeth in calamity from which we are equally far off, and whether part it will light on is to be tried with uncertainty. Also they had put to death some of those that had taken sanctuary at the altars of the severe goddesses as they were going away. and so did also afterwards the Athenians when they had dispatched the business they came about. I didn't get halfway through it. they were bold to do it without asking the advice of them; and in common counsel the advice of the Athenians was as good as the advice of them. And now we shall show you likewise that you cannot receive them in point of justice. There also came to the Athenians certain horsemen out of Thessaly, which in the battle turned to the Lacedaemonians. For not they break the league who being abandoned have recourse to others, but they that yield not their assistance to whom they have sworn it. Till at length (as it is reported) purposing to send over to Artabazus his last letters to the king, he was bewrayed unto them by a man of Argilus, in time past his minion and most faithful to him, who, being terrified with the cogitation that not any of those which had been formerly sent had ever returned, got him a seal like to the seal of Pausanias (to the end that if his jealousy were false or that he should need to alter anything in the letter, it might not be discovered) and opened the letter, wherein (as he had suspected the addition of some such clause) he found himself also written down to be murdered. So that, though overcome by three of the greatest things, honour, fear, and profit, we have both accepted the dominion delivered us and refuse again to surrender it, we have therein done nothing to be wondered at nor beside the manner of men. And after this there came to him from Athens a supply of forty sail, with Thucydides, Agnon, and Phormio; And though the Samians fought against these a small battle at sea, yet unable to hold out any longer, in the ninth month of the siege they rendered the city upon composition: namely, to demolish their walls, to give hostages, to deliver up their navy, and to repay the money spent by the Athenians in the war at days appointed. And when he came to Lacedaemon, he went not to the state, but delaying the time excused himself, and when any of those that were in office asked him why he did not present himself to the state, answered, ‘. That they have done us the injury is manifest; for when we offered them a judicial trial of the controversy touching Epidamnus, they chose to prosecute their quarrel rather by arms than judgment. Also they sticked not sometimes to boast how much they excelled in shipping, and that Corcyra had been once inhabited by the Phaeaces who flourished in glory of naval affairs, which was also the cause why they the rather provided themselves of a navy. But if they had been honest men (as they themselves say they are), by how much the less they are obnoxious to accusation, so much the more means they have, by giving and taking what is due, to make their honesty appear. For though by war growth the confirmation of peace, yet for love of ease to refuse the war doth not likewise avoid the danger. And the opinions of the greatest part concurred in this, that the Athenians had done unjustly and ought speedily to be warred on. The Lacedaemonians when they heard him, though they made no show of being angry with the Athenians (for they had not sent their ambassadors to forbid them but, by way of advice, to admonish them not to build the wall; besides, they bare them affection then for their courage shown against the Medes), yet they were inwardly offended because they missed of their will.