Kitap 5
2.18
As for their pride, how could one describe it? For the deity, perhaps, has so ordered it that men’s pride383 B.C. should increase with their power.We, then, men of Lacedaemon and of the allied states, report that such are the conditions there; it is for you to deliberate as to whether they seem to deserve attention. But you must understand this also, that the power which we have described as great is not yet hard to wrestle with. For such of the cities as share in the citizenship of Olynthus unwillingly, these, I say, will quickly fall away if they see any opposing force presenting itself;
2.19
if, however, they once become closely connected by reciprocal rights of intermarriage and of property, which have already been voted, and find that it is profitable to be on the side of the conqueror — even as the Arcadians when they go with you keep their own possessions safe and plunder those of others — then, it may be, this confederacy will no longer be so easy to break up.
2.20
When these things had been said, the Lacedaemonians gave their allies permission to speak and bade them advise whatever course anyone of them deemed best both for Peloponnesus and for the allies. Thereupon many, especially those who desired to gratify the Lacedaemonians, advocated raising an army, and it was decided that each state should send its proportionate contingent for an army of ten thousand.
2.21
Proposals were also made that any state which so desired should be allowed to give money instead of men, three Aeginetan The Aeginetan obol was worth nearly half as much again as the Attic;cp. I. v. 5. obols per day for each man, while if any state normally furnished horsemen, pay equal to that of four hoplites should be given for each horseman;
2.22
and if any one of the states should383 B.C. fail to send its contingent to the army, the Lacedaemonians were to be permitted to fine such state a stater i.e., two drachmas. per day for each man.
