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125 but remain patient with a condition of affairs wherein our city is reproached with doing violence to the Hellenes and extorting money from them,See Aristoph. Wasps 655-724. while these men reap the harvest,Cf. Aristoph. Wasps 1114 ff. and wherein our people, who are told by the sycophants that they ought to rule over the rest of the world, are worse off than those who are slaves to oligarchy,See Isoc. 4.105. while these men, who had no advantage to start with, have risen because of our folly from a mean to an enviable position.

126 And yet Pericles,Isocrates’ attitude towards Pericles is set forth at greater length in Isoc. 15.234. who was the leader of the people before men of this stamp came into favor, taking over the state when it was less prudent than it had been before it obtained the supremacy, although it was still tolerably well governed, was not bent upon his own enrichment,Thucydides (ii. 65) calls him “incorruptible beyond suspicion.” but left an estate which was smaller than that which he received from his father, while he brought up into the Acropolis eight thousand talents,See Isoc. 8.69, note; Isoc. 15.234. apart from the sacred treasures.