Quote Originally Posted by fireblade View Post
I DISAGREE with Leumenes' motion to seize Kretai. Not unless the threat posed by Demetrias, that dagger, aimed at the heart of attika, is removed, can we consider any adventure overseas. What use is the army to the alliance, if the homeland is left unprotected. Let's not act rash, we have 4 years control over the army of the alliance. Let's not waste those years shipping our men back and forth from Kretai. No, Let's press on the makedons. If we beat the army sieging our beloved city, we can push onwards, and with all our forces concentrated in one place, drive home, maybe even to Pella. The war in the north, fellow citizens, is the reason of the alliance, not some harmless villages on an island that has done nothing wrong since the time of Theseus.
Leumenes, back in the assembly as Vaginacles was deliberating about the party unifications; overheard what pyrospathos had said, and clarified, with a mild chuckle:
"No, no, no... The allied army will defend the polis while garrisoned in the camp and launching attacks to mainland Makedonia, the Athenian army would go around asking for help to Krete or liberating Lesbos... Forgive my lack of clarity"

He sat down, with a smile on his face.

~Jirisys ()