Witnessing such a state of morality, all the inhabitants of Asia have been turned to wickedness and wrong-doing. For, whatever the character of the rulers is, such also that of the people under them for the most part becomes. In this respect they are now even more unprincipled than before.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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