As soon as its political opponents had been destroyed, and its foreign enemies defeated, it would lose the chief force that kept it together.
Μόλις οι πολιτικοί της εχθροί καταστράφηκαν και οι ξένοι εχθροί ηττήθηκαν, έχασε την κύρια δύναμη που την κρατούσε ενωμένη.