It was a liberation and that was language

这是一次"解放"
that Epaminondas used of it.

埃帕米农达就是这么说的
It had the marvelous psychological effect

这带来了不可估量的心理效应
that I am speaking of and also a very practical one.

而且也非常特别
Here was a fortress on the flank of the Spartans,

有一个斯巴达侧翼的要塞
which was controlled by people who hated the Spartans bitterly

由一些对斯巴达恨之入骨的民族控制
and that would guarantee that the Spartans would not

他们信誓旦旦地保证斯巴达人
lightly gain control of the western Peloponnesus again.

绝不可能再轻易控制伯罗奔尼撒西部地区
If you add to that that the Arcadians

你还可以算上阿卡迪亚人
had suffered plenty from the Spartans

他们也是屡经斯巴达人蹂躏
and were unwilling to allow the Spartans to rise again,

绝不会坐视斯巴达东山再起
and there was Megalopolis, a walled powerful city

还有麦加罗城一座铜墙铁壁的城市