Isocrates, Plataicus
George Norlin, Ed.

Remember also that you undertook your most recent war,¹ not to secure the freedom of either yourselves or your allies （for you all enjoyed that already）, but in behalf of those who were being deprived of their autonomy in violation of the oaths and covenants. But surely it would be the most outrageous thing in the world, if you are going to permit these cities, which you thought ought not to be in servitude to the Lacedaemonians, now to be destroyed by the Thebans—men who are so far from emulating your clemency that it would have been better for us to suffer at the hands of this city that fate which is regarded as the most dreadful of all misfortunes,