When the Athenians took as a friend Alexander, the despot of Pherae, who was an enemy of the Thebans, and he promised to supply the Athenians with meat to be sold at a penny a pound, Epameinondas said, ‘But we will supply them with [p. 147] wood to cook their meat for nothing; for we will cut down everything in their land, if they make any trouble.’
When the Athenians took as a friend Alexander, the despot of Pherae, who was an enemy of the Thebans, and he promised to supply the Athenians with meat to be sold at a penny a pound, Epameinondas said, ‘But we will supply them with [p. 147] wood to cook their meat for nothing; for we will cut down everything in their land, if they make any trouble.’