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[7] ἠξίου τε πρὸς τὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἔργα πατρικίων τὰ ὑφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ πραττόμενα ἐξετάζειν, ὡς πολὺ καὶ τὸ πᾶν ἀλλήλων διαφέροντα. ἐκείνους μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲν ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων εἰς τὸ κοινὸν ἀναλίσκοντας ἔτι καὶ τὴν δημοσίαν γῆν σφετερισαμένους πολὺν ἤδη καρποῦσθαι χρόνον, ἑαυτὸν δὲ τῶν δημοσίων οὐδὲν ἔχοντα ἔτι καὶ τὴν πατρῴαν καταχορηγεῖν οὐσίαν εἰς βοήθειαν τῶν ἀπόρων καί, ἐπειδὰν τὰ ὄντα καταναλώσῃ, δανείσματα ποιεῖσθαι παρὰ φίλων οὐθὲν ἀντικαταλλαττόμενον τῆς τοιαύτης φιλοτιμίας ὅτι μὴ τὴν πολιτικὴν εὔνοιαν, ἧς οὐδὲ τὸν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων πλοῦτον ἡγεῖσθαι τιμιώτερον.
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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