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ἐξέργομαι: cf. ch. 96. 1 n.

This apologia was probably written soon after the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war. The charges prompted by fear and envy of Athens, and the pleas she urged in her own defence, are admirably summarized in the speeches of the Corinthian and the Athenian before the Spartan assembly in 432 B.C. (Thuc. i. 68-78). H. is conscious that his opinion will be unpopular in Hellas; cf. viii. 144.

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