Enemy

What is more, we see the enemy reduced, and ourselves increased in both numbers and strength.

at any rate, if I expected to gain some advantage by it;

And how, father, said he, could one catch the enemy making such mistakes?

In a word, if I may speak without reserve, it is preferable for us to suffer annihilation, rather than derision, at the hands of our foes.

I do not know what more I need to add, save only this much—that while numberless wars and dangers have fallen to the lot of Sparta, the enemy have never yet raised a trophy over us when a king from my house was our leader.

Let us, then, remembering all these things, take up the war with greater vigor, and let us not delay in the expectation that others will remedy our present misfortunes, but since these have occurred in our own time, let us ourselves endeavor also to end them.