Athenians! past, and present, and to come,—

The fickle and the false! No stone dislodged,

No implement applied, yet three days' grace

Expire! Forbearance is no longer-lived.

By breaking promise, terms of peace you break—

Too gently framed for falsehood, fickleness!

All must be reconsidered—yours the fault!"

Wherewith, he called a council of allies.

Pent-up resentment used its privilege,—

Outburst at ending: this the summed result.