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shall take away the crops of the vanquished, but that their temper shall
be that of men who expect to be reconciled and not always to wage
war.” “That way of feeling,” he said,
“is far less savage than the other.” “Well,
then,” said I, “is not the city that you are founding to
be a Greek city?” “It must be,” he said.
“Will they then not be good and gentle?”
“Indeed they will.” “And won't they be
philhellenes,1 lovers of Greeks, and will they not regard all
Greece as their own and not
renounce their part in the holy places common to all Greeks ?”
“Most certainly.” “Will they not then regard
any difference with Greeks
1 Cf. Epistles 354 A, Herodotus ii. 178, Isocrates Phil. 122, Panegyricus 96, Evagoras 40, Panath. 241. The word is still significant for international politics, and must be retained in the translation.
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