You must also remember that your decision is for Athens no less than Corcyra, and that you are not making the best provision for her interests, if at a time when you are anxiously scanning the horizon that you may be in readiness for the breaking out of the war which is all but upon you, you hesitate to attach to your side a place whose adhesion or estrangement is alike pregnant with the most vital consequences.
eta ez dabilela honen aldeko neurri egokienak hartzen, lehertzear eta gain-gainean daukagun gerra baten aurrean, lagun edo etsai gisa une garrantzitsuetan baizik lerrokatzen ez den herrialde bat erakartzeko duda-mudatan dabilenean, epe laburreko kontsiderazio zuhurren menpe.