Passage 7.17.2
τὸ δὲ ἔθνος τὸ Ἀττικόν, ἀπὸ τοῦ Πελοποννησίων πολέμου καὶ νόσου τῆς λοιμώδους ἀνενεγκόν τε καὶ αὖθις ἀνανηξάμενον, ἔτεσιν ἔμελλεν οὐ πολλοῖς ὕστερον ἡ Μακεδόνων ἀκμὴ καθαιρήσειν· κατέσκηψε δὲ ἐκ Μακεδονίας καὶ ἐς τὰς Βοιωτίας Θήβας τὸ Ἀλεξάνδρου μήνιμα. Λακεδαιμονίοις δὲ Ἐπαμινώνδας ὁ Θηβαῖος καὶ αὖθις ὁ Ἀχαιῶν πόλεμος ἐγένετο· ὅτε δὲ καὶ μόγις, ἅτε ἐκ δένδρου λελωβημένου καὶ αὔου τὰ πλείονα, ἀνεβλάστησεν ἐκ τῆς Ἑλλάδος τὸ Ἀχαϊκόν, καὶ αὐτὸ ἡ κακία τῶν στρατηγησάντων ἐκόλουσεν ἔτι αὐξανόμενον.
The Attic people, having recovered from both the Peloponnesian War and the devastating plague and again regaining strength, were fated a few years later to be brought low by Macedonian power. Out of Macedonia also came Alexander's wrath upon Thebes in Boeotia. As for the Lacedaemonians, they experienced first the attack of Epaminondas the Theban, and later the war against the Achaeans. But when at length, like a tree that had been maimed and mostly withered, the Achaean nation sprouted anew from Hellas, its further growth was checked once again by the incompetence of its leaders.