If we Siceliots, all together, or at least as many as possible besides ourselves, would only launch the whole of our actual navy with two months' provisions, and meet the Athenians at Tarentum and the Iapygian promontory, and show them that before fighting for Sicily they must first fight for their passage across the Ionian Sea, we should strike dismay into their army, and set them on thinking that we have a base for our defensive-- for Tarentum is ready to receive us-- while they have a wide sea to cross with all their armament, which could with difficulty keep its order through so long a voyage, and would be easy for us to attack as it came on slowly and in small detachments.
siziliarrok-nahi izanez gero, denok, edo behintzat gure alde bil ditzakegun guztiek-daukagun flota guztia itsasora dezagula bi hilabeterako zuzkidurarekin, Tarentora edo Yapigia lurmuturrera joan gaitezela atenastarrei aurpegi ematera eta zera erakustera: