History of the Peloponnesian War

but they will either not resist you when you sail against them, or else they will have to withdraw their fleets both from our waters and from yours. And let no one think that he will be incurring a risk of his own for the country of another.

For though Lesbos seems to him to be a long way off, the help she will bring him will be close at hand. For the war will not be in Attica,[*](ie. the war will not be decided in Attica.) as some think, but in those countries from which Athens derives its support. The revenues of Athens come from her allies, and they will be still greater if they shall subdue us;