quantam ergo reprehensionem merentur qui, cum aequissima iura sed iniquissima ingenia haberent, moribus suis quam legibus uti maluerunt? quod si qua providentia deorum effici posset ut excellentissimi viri quorum modo casus rettuli legem ingratorum vindicem recitantes patriam suam in ius ad aliam civitatem pertraherent, nonne ingeniosum et garrulum populum mutum atque elinguem hac postulatione reddidissent? discordes foci tui pagisque dividua tuguria Graeciae facta sunt columen: lucet Marathon Persicis tropaeis: Salamina et Artemisium Xerxis naufragia numerantur: praevalidis manibus exhausta moenia pulchrioribus operibus consurgunt.
How severe a censure then do they deserve who, having most fair laws but most unfair natures, have preferred to follow their characters rather than their statutes! If by some divine providence it could have been brought about that the excellent personages whose fates I have just recounted could haul their country into court before another community, reciting the law that penalizes ingratitude, would they not have struck that clever, voluble people mute and dumb with the following arraignment? Your disunited hearths and huts divided among rural districts became the crown of Greece. Marathon shines with Persian trophies. Salamis and Artemisium are scored up as Xerxes shipwrecks. Buildings razed by hands all too strong rise in works of greater beauty.
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