deceleias

Updated: July 1, 2025

We have many Deceleias, situate along the great trade-routes and needing protection. Once these are betrayed we shall not hold out as Athens did for nearly ten years; ten weeks at the outside ought to see our people starving and beaten, fit for nothing but the payment of indemnities to the power which relieves us of our inheritance. The earliest is by Hobbes, the best is by Jowett, Oxford.

T. W. Lumb - Authors of Greece