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1 For instances see Philochorus, l.c.
2 See Dem. 18.61: "In all the Greek states—not in some of them but in every one of them—it chanced that there had sprung up the most abundant crop of traitorous, venal, and profligate politicians ever known within the memory of mankind." (Vince & Vince, L.C.L.).
3 See Horace on the power of gold: "diffidit urbium Portas vir Macedo et subruit aemulos Reges muneribus" ( Horace Odes 3.16.13 ff.).
4 Cp. φθείρουσιν ἤθη χρήσθ᾽ ὁμιλίαι κακαί (Eur. fr. 1013, Menander Thais fr. 218 Kock and 1 Corinthians 15.33).
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