It would not, then, be surprising if something of the sort has come to pass in the
 present instance, where you think that you will gain the greatest credit if you conceal
 for the longest possible time the purpose you had in mind when you worked out your
 discourse, whereas I think that you will best succeed if you can with the least possible
 delay publish the thought by which you were governed when you composed it to all the world
 and especially to the Lacedaemonians, whom you have often discussed, sometimes with
 fairness and dignity, but then again with recklessness and extreme captiousness. “For if one were to show them a discourse of the latter sort before I had explained it
 to them, they would inevitably hate you and dislike you for having written in denunciation
 of them. As it is, I think that while most of the Lacedaemonians will continue to abide in
 the ways to which they have been faithful in past times and will pay no more attention to
 what is written in Athens than to what is said
 beyond the Pillars of Heracles,