Again, is any one persuaded that, looking solely to riches
and money-making, the state may find war more profitable
than peace? If so, I cannot conceive a better method to
decide that question than to allow the mind to revert*
to the past history of the statte and to note well the sequence
of events. He will discover that in times long gone by
during a period of peace vast wealth was stored up in the
acropolis, -the whole of which was lavishly expended during a
subsequent period of war. He will perceive, if he examines
closely, that even at the present time we are suffering from its
ill effects. Countless sources of revenues have failed, or if
they have still flowed in, been lavishly expended on a multi-
plicity of things. Whereas," now that peace is established by
sea, our revenues have expanded and the citizens of Athens

1 See Hell. VII. v. 27 (above, p. 233). ^ " Autonomy."

8 See Thuc. v. 18, clause 2 of the Treaty of Peace, B.C. 422-421.
* Reading, with Zurborg, irup^vro. Or, if the vulgate iireipUvTo, transl.
"against those who sought to step." For the date of the pamphlet itself see
on the minor works. Trans, vol. i. p. Iviii. note i. ^ Reading iiravaffKoiroltj.
^ Or, " But the moment peace has been restored."



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