[319] And with what results? We have been plunged into war[174]; we have seen many of our fellow-countrymen suffer, some of them dying in battle, some made prisoners of war, and others reduced to the last extremities of want; we have seen the democracy twice overthrown,[175] the walls which defended our country torn down[176]; and, worst of all, we have seen the whole city in peril of being enslaved,[177] and our enemy encamped on the Acropolis.[178]