Polybius, Histories

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Book 30 - Chapter 12

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<w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29%2Fhpeiron">Ἤπειρον</w> <w lemma="paraplh%2Fsia">παραπλήσια</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftois">τούτοις</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fpratton">ἔπραττον</w>.
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<w lemma="e%29f%27">ἐφ᾽</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Fson">ὅσον</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="polloi%5C">πολλοὶ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29nqrw%2Fpwn">ἀνθρώπων</w> <w lemma="metriw%2Fteroi">μετριώτεροι</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Aai%29twli%2Fan">Αἰτωλίαν</w> <w lemma="h%29%3Dsan">ἦσαν</w>, <w lemma="e%29pi%5C">ἐπὶ</w> <w lemma="tosou%3Dton">τοσοῦτον</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="proestw%5Cs">προεστὼς</w> <w lemma="au%29tw%3Dn">αὐτῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29sebe%2Fsteros">ἀσεβέστερος</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="paranomw%2Fteros">παρανομώτερος</w> <w lemma="u%28ph%3Drxe">ὑπῆρχε</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fllwn">ἄλλων</w>.
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<w lemma="dokw%3D">δοκῶ</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="mh%5C">μὴ</w> <w lemma="gegone%2Fnai">γεγονέναι</w> <w lemma="mhd%27">μηδ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fsesqai">ἔσεσθαι</w> <w lemma="qhriwde%2Fsteron">θηριωδέστερον</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Fnqrwpon">ἄνθρωπον</w> <w lemma="mhd%27">μηδ᾽</w> <w lemma="ei%29kaio%2Fteron">εἰκαιότερον</w> <w lemma="%2Axa%2Fropos">Χάροπος</w>. —
<head>And of Epirus</head>The Epirots behaved in very much the same way.
For while the majority of the people were more orderly than the Aetolians, their chief magistrate just so far exceeded all other men in contempt for divine and human law.
For I think there never was and never will be a man more brutal and more unprincipled than Charops.