The Egestaeans now reminded the Athenians of the alliance made in the time of Laches, during the former Leontine war, and begged them to send a fleet to their aid, and among a number of other considerations urged as a capital argument that if the Syracusans were allowed to go unpunished for their depopulation of Leontini, to ruin the allies still left to Athens in Sicily, and to get the whole power of the island into their hands, there would be a danger of their one day coming with a large force, as Dorians, to the aid of their Dorian brethren, and as colonists, to the aid of the Peloponnesians who had sent them out, and joining these in pulling down the Athenian empire.
Eta horrela, Egestakoek atenastarrei gogora ekarriz Lakesen garaian eta aurreko gerran Leontinokoekin zuten aliantza, laguntza ematera itsasontziak bidaltzea eskatzen zieten, zera alegatuz arrazoi nagusitzat: