number of their opponents, but risking their own lives, they set up a
trophy to their enemies, and as evidence of their valor they buried the
Lacedaemonians near this memorial. For they proved the city great and not
small, and rendered it harmonious and not dissentious, and erected the
walls instead of pulling them down. 64. And those of them who returned,
showing plans like the deeds of those who lie here, devoted themselves
not to the punishment of their enemies but the safety of the city, and
neither being able to suffer encroachment on their privileges nor
desiring to have more, give a share of their freedom even to those
wishing to be in slavery, but they were not willing to share their
slavery. 65. And with the bravest and most glorious deeds they repelled
the charges against them, that the city met with disaster, not by their
cowardice nor the enemy's valor. For if in dissension with one another
they could enter their own country in spite of the presence of the
Peloponnesians and their other enemies, evidently if they had been agreed
they would have made a stand against them.

66. So those are admired by all men for their perils at the Piraeus. And
it is also fitting to praise those lying here, who aiding the people and
fighting for our safety, regarded valor as their country and so ended
life. For this the city bewailed them and gave them a public funeral and
granted them to have for all time the same honor as the citizens.

67. Those who are now buried, aiding the Corinthians who were wronged by
their old friends, became renewed allies, not sharing the ideas of the
Lacedaemonians, (for they envied their good fortunes, while the former
pitied them when wronged, not remembering the previous hostility, but
caring more for the present friendship) made evident to all men their own
valor. 68. For they dared, trying to make Greece great, not only to incur
danger for their own safety but to die for the liberty of their enemies;