but have to send and get all these from us, Cf. Isoc. 4.135 . we have gone so far in our passion to
 injure ourselves that, whereas it lies in our power to possess the wealth of the
 barbarians in security and peace, we continue to wage war upon each other over
 trifles, Cf. Isoc.
 4.133-136 . and we actually help to reduce to subjection those who
 revolt Cf. Isoc.
 4.134 . from the authority of the King, and sometimes, unwittingly, we ally
 ourselves with our hereditary foes Isoc. 4.157 . and seek to destroy those who are of our own race. Therefore, since the others are so lacking in spirit, I think it is opportune for you to
 head the war against the King; and, while it is only natural for the other descendants of
 Heracles, and for men who are under the bonds of their polities and laws, to cleave fondly
 to that state in which they happen to dwell, it is your privilege, as one who has been
 blessed with untrammeled freedom, Cf. 14, 15. to
 consider all Hellas your fatherland, Cf. Isoc. 4.81 . as did the
 founder of your race, and to be as ready to brave perils for her sake as for the things
 about which you are personally most concerned. Perhaps there are those—men capable of nothing else but criticism—who will venture to
 rebuke me because I have chosen to challenge you to the task of leading the expedition
 against the barbarians and of taking Hellas under your care, while I have passed over my
 own city. Well, if I were trying to present this matter to any others before having broached it to
 my own country, which has thrice Twice from the
 barbarians—at Marathon and Salamis ; once from
 the Spartans at the battle of Cnidus , where the
 navy under Conon put an end to the Spartan hegemony. freed Hellas—twice from the
 barbarians and once from the Lacedaemonian yoke—I should confess my error. In truth,
 however, it will be found that I turned to Athens first of all and endeavored to win her over to this cause with all
 the earnestness of which my nature is capable, In the
 Panegyricus . but when I perceived that she cared less for what I
 said than for the ravings of the platform orators, See
 General Introd. p. xxxviii. I gave her up, although I did not abandon my efforts.
 Wherefore I might justly be praised on every hand, because throughout my whole life I
 have constantly employed such powers as I possess in warring on the barbarians, in
 condemning those who opposed my plan, and in striving to arouse to action whoever I think
 will best be able to benefit the Hellenes in any way or to rob the barbarians of their
 present prosperity.