come and help us in war, and take the spoils of the other city: Who, on hearing these words, would choose to fight against lean wiry dogs, rather than, with the dogs on their side, against fat and tender
That is not likely; and yet there might be a danger to the poor State if the wealth of many States were to be gathered into one.
But many cities will conspire? No: they are divided in themselves. But how simple of you to use the term State at all of any but our own!
Why so?
You ought to speak of other States in the plural number; not one of them is a city, but many cities, as they say in the game. For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided