Δέον

"Just like Perikles, I spent 'on the necessary'." When general of [the] Athenians Perikles, required to give an account of money [given] to the Lacedaimonians' harmost Kleandros¹ for [sc. the purpose of inducing him to commit] treason, did not make this clear, but said that he had spent it 'on the necessary'. But some [explain it] otherwise. With there being a lot of money on the acropolis, he spent most of it on the war. But they say that when giving his accounts he said simply that he had spent 50 talents 'on the necessary'. Learning [this] afterwards,² the Lacedaemonians confiscated Kleandrides[' property] and fined [sc. King] Pleistoanax 5 talents, suspecting that they had taken bribes to spare the rest of the land of the Athenians; and [they say that] Perikles hinted in this way so as to avoid saying nakedly 'I gave this [money] to the kings[sic] of the Lacedaimonians'.