This, Athenians, you have a good opportunity to do now with us, and thus to escape the possible disasters which may follow upon your refusal, and the consequent imputation of having owed to accident even your present advantages, when you might have left behind you a reputation for power and wisdom which nothing could endanger.
20. "Guri, batzuoi zein bestetzuei, adiskidetzea komeni zaigu, bitartean sor daitekeen erremediorik gabeko zerbait, gure betiko etsaitasun nazionalari norbanakoen artekoa gehitzea ekarriko duen zerbait gertatu aurretik, eta zuek guk proposamenak egitean eskaini nahi dizuegun abantaila hori barik gelditu aurretik.