[63] as is ever their habit—to denounce our city, to recount the most offensive acts which transpired while she held the empire of the sea, to present in a false light the adjudication of lawsuits in Athens for the allies[69] and her collection of tribute[70] from them, and above all to dwell on the cruelties suffered at her hands by the Melians and the Scionians and the Toronians,[71] thinking by these reproaches to sully the benefactions of Athens which I have just described.