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İngilizce İngilizce

111 What act of shame or outrage is wanting in their careers? They regarded the most lawless of men as the most loyal; they courted traitors as if they were benefactors; they chose to be slaves to one of the HelotsThe reference is to Lysander, who on his mother’s side was of Helot blood. The Helots were serfs of the Spartans. so that they might oppress their own countries; they honored the assassins and murderers of their fellow-citizens more than their own parents;

112 and to such a stage of brutishness did they bring us all that, whereas in former times, because of the prosperity which prevailed, every one of us found many to sympathize with him even in trifling reverses, yet under the rule of these men, because of the multitude of our own calamities, we ceased feeling pity for each other, since there was no man to whom they allowed enough of respite so that he could share another’s burdens.