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 1 1|      custom of the Scythians, and Persians, and Carthaginians, and
 2 1|         glorious institution. The Persians, again, are much given to
 3 3|          the other democracy: the Persians have the highest form of
 4 3|       case with the Athenians and Persians of old time, but now they
 5 3|         There was a time when the Persians had more of the state which
 6 3|        which was Persian; for the Persians are shepherds—sons of a
 7 3|           empire came back to the Persians, through Darius and the
 8 3|           community among all the Persians, and attaching the people
 9 3|       really great king among the Persians, although they are all called
10 3|     enlarge. We remarked that the Persians grew worse and worse. And
11 3|   Athenian. And now enough of the Persians, and their present maladministration
12 3| constitution at the time when the Persians made their attack on Hellas,
13 3|        first expedition, when the Persians destroyed Eretria, no one
14 3|         both of ourselves and the Persians was, in a certain sense,