[Sidenote:—­4—­] “But, to tell the truth, it is we who have made ourselves responsible for all these evils in allowing them so much as to set foot on the island in the first place instead of expelling them at once as we did their famous Julius Caesar,—­yes, in not making the idea of attempting the voyage formidable to them, while they were as yet far off, as it was to Augustus and to Gaius Caligula.  So great an island, or rather in one sense a continent encircled by water, do we inhabit, a veritable world of our own, and so far are we separated by the ocean from all the rest of mankind that we have been believed to dwell on a different earth and under a different sky and some of their wisest men were not previously sure of even our exact name.  Yet for all this we have been scorned and trampled under foot by men who know naught else than how to secure gain.  Still, let us even at this late day, if not before, fellow-citizens, friends and relatives,—­for I deem you all relatives, in that you inhabit a single island and are called by [Footnote:  Reading [Greek:  chechlaemenous](van Herwerden).] one common name,—­let us do our duty while the memory of freedom still abides within us, that we may leave both the name and the fact of it to our children.  For if we utterly lose sight of the happy conditions amid which we were born and bred, what pray will they do, reared in bondage?

[Sidenote:—­5—­] “This I say not to inspire you with a hatred of present circumstances,—­that hatred is already apparent,—­nor with a fear of the future,—­that fear you already have,—­but to commend you because of your own accord you choose to do just what you ought, and to thank you for cooperating so readily with me and your own selves at once.  Be nowise afraid of the Romans.  They are not more numerous than are we nor yet braver.  And the proof is that they have protected themselves with helmets and breastplates and greaves and furthermore have equipped their camps with palisades and walls and ditches to make sure that they shall suffer no harm by any hostile assault. [Footnote:  Corruptions in the text emended by Reiske.] Their fears impel them to choose this method rather than engage in any active work like us.  We enjoy such a superabundance of bravery that we regard tents as safer than walls and our shields as affording greater protection than their whole suits of mail.  As a consequence, we when victorious can capture them and when overcome by force can elude them.  And should we ever choose to retreat, we can conceal ourselves in swamps and mountains so inaccessible that we can be neither found nor taken.  The enemy, however, can neither pursue any one by reason of their heavy armor nor yet flee.  And if they ever should slip away from us, taking refuge in certain designated spots, there, too, they are sure to be enclosed as in a trap.  These are some of the respects in which they are vastly inferior to us, and others are their inability to bear up under