For they would not else have stolen Corcyra from us, and kept it in spite of us, and besieged Potidaea; of which places, the one is the most convenient for their deriving the full benefit from their possessions Thrace-ward, Arnold translates it, so as to give you the full benefit of your dominion in the neighbourhood of Thrace. But could the Lacedaemonians be said to have any such dominion, at any rate before the expedition of Brasidas? and does not the πελοποννησίοις in the next sentence seem to he put emphatically, as in opposition to the Athenian dominion just alluded to? and the other would have supplied the largest navy to the Peloponnesians.
"And for these things it is you who are to blame, by having at first permitted them to fortify their city after the Median war, and subsequently to build the long walls; and by continually up to the present time depriving of liberty, not only those who had been enslaved by them, but your own allies also now. For it is not he who has enslaved them, but he who has the power to stop it, but overlooks it, that more truly does this; especially if he enjoys the reputation for virtue as being the liberator of Greece.
