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Updated: June 23, 2025
Had there been in each of the cities of Hellas one man, such as I was, as I stood at my own post in your midst nay, if all Thessaly and all Arcadia had each had but one man animated by the same spirit as myself not one Hellenic people, either beyond or on this side of Thermopylae, would have experienced the evils which they now suffer.
No doubt, even now Hellenic individual development asserted its claims by the side of that levelling system; and the genius and force which it exhibited bear, no less than the tendency to which it opposed itself, the full stamp of that great age. We can name but a single man in connection with it; but he was, as it were, the incarnation of the idea of progress.
But, even if we exclude the question of relative distance from the centre of affairs, it was still not probable that the dweller in the country would be a good citizen according to the Hellenic comprehension of that phrase.
The land which we see is Hellenic in a sense in which not even Sicily, not even the Great Hellas of Southern Italy, much less than the Dalmatian archipelago, ever became Hellenic.
Hellenic influence had a similar, though less powerful, effect on the Lucanians and Bruttians as on the Campanians.
Among the latter they include the acquisition of wealth and the satisfaction of carnal needs. At this time, too, the old Hellenic curiosity was not wholly dimmed; they took an intelligent interest in imported creeds like that of Luther, which, if not convincing, at least satisfied their desire for novelty.
His accent was a Spanish, Latino-African accent, not Hellenic, and there are echoes of him in Tertullian Spanish, too, at heart who believed in the corporal and substantial nature of God and the soul, and who was a kind of Don Quixote in the world of Christian thought in the second century.
The Persians, with the intelligence and versatility for which their race has always been remarkable, passed very rapidly from overweening contempt to excessive admiration of the Greeks. They set to work almost at once to attract Hellenic statesmen and men of science to their own society, and to make use of Hellenic soldiers and sailors.
It perceived what there was no difficulty in perceiving that the Hellenic nation was thereby surrendering itself to the Romans even before these wished or desired its surrender, and attempted accordingly to mediate between Philip and the Rhodians; but it was too late.
But a struggle with a people who live in a distant land, who have also an extraordinary familiarity with the sea, and who are in the highest state of preparation in every other department; with wealth private and public, with ships, and horses, and heavy infantry, and a population such as no one other Hellenic place can equal, and lastly a number of tributary allies what can justify us in rashly beginning such a struggle? wherein is our trust that we should rush on it unprepared?
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