We all look with distaste on people who arrogantly pretend to a reputation to which they are not entitled; but equally to be condemned are those who,… - Thucydides

but the country went by the names of the different tribes, in particular of the Pelasgian.

hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are already ruined;

The cause of all this was the pursuit of power driven by greed and ambition, leading in turn to the passions of the party rivalries thus established. The dominant men on each side in the various cities employed fine-sounding terms, claiming espousal either of democratic rights for all or of a conservative aristocracy, but the public whose interests they professed to serve were in fact their ultimate prize