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157 Of my own countrymen also I have a similar tale to tell. For towards all other peoples with whom they have been at war, they forget their past enmities the moment they have concluded peace, but toward the Asiatics they feel no gratitude even when they receive favors from them; so eternal is the wrath which they cherish against the barbarians.See Plat. Rep. 470c; Livy 31.29, “cum barbaris omnibus Graecis bellum est eritque.” Again, our fathers condemned many to deathSee Hdt. 9.5; Lyc. 1.122; Dem. 19.270. for defection to the Medes; in our public assemblies even to this day, before any other business is transacted, the Athenians call down cursesThe custom is attributed to Aristeides by Plut. Arist. 10. upon any citizen who proposes friendly overtures to the Persians; and, at the celebration of the Mysteries, the Eumolpidae and the Kerykes,The priests at Eleuis belonged to families traditionally descended from Eumolpus and Keryx. because of our hatred of the Persians, give solemn warning to the other barbarians also, even as to men guilty of murder, that they are for ever banned from the sacred rites.See Hdt. 8.65; Lobeck, Aglaophamus, i. p. 15.

158 So ingrained in our nature is our hostility to them that even in the matter of our stories we linger most fondly over those which tell of the Trojan and the Persian wars,Cf. Isoc. 9.6. because through them we learn of our enemies’ misfortunes; and you will find that our warfare against the barbarians has inspired our hymns, while that against the Hellenes has brought forth our dirges;“Victories over the barbarians call for hymns, but victories over the Hellenes for dirges,” said Gorgias in his Epitaphios, and Isocrates may have had his words in mind. The Gorgias fragment is quoted by Philostr. Lives of the Sophists, 493. and that the former are sung at our festivals, while we recall the latter on occasions of sorrow.

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