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[37] Now I should be glad if they would inform me what ancestors they would have us imitate. Do they mean those who lived at the time of the Persian Wars1 or those who governed the city before the Decelean War2? If they mean the latter then they are simply advising us to run the risk once again of being enslaved3;

1 See 75.

2 This term is frequently used to denote the last decade of the Peloponnesian War, from the occupation of the fort of Decelea near Athens by the Spartans in 413 B.C. Cf. 84. During this period the affairs of Athens went from bad to worse.

3 As at the end of the Peloponnesian War. Cf. 78.

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