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Περὶ εἰρήνης Isocrates
100 Did they not rob the Eleans of part of their territory,See Dio. Sic. 14.17. did they not lay waste the land of the Corinthians,See Xen. Hell. 4.5.19. did they not disperse the Mantineans from their homes,See Isoc. 4.126; Xen. Hell. 5.2.1. did they not reduce the Phliasians by siege,See Xen. Hell. 5.3.21 ff. and Isoc. 4.126. and did they not invade the country of the Argives,See Xen. Hell. 4.4.19. never ceasing from their depredations upon the rest of the world and so bringing upon themselves the disaster at Leuctra? Some maintain that this disaster was the cause of the misfortunes which overtook Sparta, but they do not speak the truth. For it was not because of this that they incurred the hatred of their allies; it was because of their insolence in the time preceding that they were defeated in this battle and fell into peril of losing their own city.
101 We must not attribute the cause to any subsequent misfortunes but to their crimes in the beginning, as the result of which they were brought to such a disastrous end. So that anyone would be much more in accord with the truth if he should assert that they first became subject to the dominion of their present ills at the moment when they attempted to seize the dominion of the sea,For this word-play cf. Isoc. 5.61, note; also this discourse, Isoc. 8.105. since they were seeking to acquire a power which was in no wise like that which they had before possessed.

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