Then after this he gave thought to inquire which people of the Hellenes he should esteem the most powerful and gain over to himself as friends. And inquiring he found that the Lacedemonians and the Athenians had the pre-eminence, the first of the Dorian and the others of the Ionian race.
Ondoren, heleniarren artean indartsuenak nortzuk ziren ikertu eta hauek bere adiskidetasunera erakartzea pentsatu zuen. Eta, ikertzean, lazedemondarrak eta athenastarrak nabarmentzen zirela aurkitu zuen: