Plato, Laws 706e

ὃς κέλεαι πολέμοιο συνεσταότος καὶ ἀυτῆς νῆας ἐυσέλμους ἅλαδʼ ἕλκειν, ὄφρʼ ἔτι μᾶλλον Τρωσὶ μὲν εὐκτὰ γένηται ἐελδομένοισί περ ἔμπης, ἡμῖν δʼ αἰπὺς ὄλεθρος ἐπιρρέπῃ· οὐ γὰρ Ἀχαιοί σχήσουσιν πολέμου νηῶν ἅλαδʼ ἑλκομενάων, ἀλλʼ ἀποπαπτανέουσιν, ἐρωήσουσι δὲ χάρμης·

Dost bid our people hale their fair-benched ships Seaward, when war and shouting close us round? So shall the Trojans see their prayers fulfilled, And so on us shall sheer destruction fall! For, when the ships are seaward drawn, no more Will our Achaeans hold the battle up, But, backward glancing, they will quit the fray: