and being appointed leaders of the King's former subjects, we continue to be so, thinking that we are least likely to fall under the dominion of the Peloponnesians, if we have a force to defend ourselves with, and in strict truth having done nothing unfair in reducing to subjection the Ionians and islanders, the kinsfolk whom the Syracusans say we have enslaved.
"Eta gauzak diren bezala esateko, joniarrak eta uhartetarrak modu txarrean menperatu gabe, nahiz eta sirakusarrek errepikatu leinu kideak izan arren esklabo egin ditugula.