No, if they meant anything honest let them say it out before all. The Lacedaemonians, however, seeing that whatever concessions they might be prepared to make in their misfortune, it was impossible for them to speak before the multitude and lose credit with their allies for a negotiation which might after all miscarry, and on the other hand, that the Athenians would never grant what they asked upon moderate terms, returned from Athens without having effected anything.
Lazedemondarrek horren kontrako iritzia agertu zuten eta, ontzien kontua justiziaren kontrako hutsegitetzat jota, itzuli egin ziren eta borrokan hasi ziren berriro.