sentiments. {39} Where are such sentiments now? They have been sold in the
market and are gone; and those have been imported in their stead, through
which the nation lies ruined and plague-stricken--the envy of the man who
has received his hire; the amusement which accompanies his avowal; [the
pardon granted to those whose guilt is proved;] the hatred of one who
censures the crime; and all the appurtenances of corruption. {40} For as
to ships, numerical strength, unstinting abundance of funds and all other
material of war, and all the things by which the strength of cities is
estimated, every people can command these in greater plenty and on a
larger scale by far than in old days. But all these resources are rendered
unserviceable, ineffectual, unprofitable, by those who traffic in them.

{41} That these things are so to-day, you doubtless see, and need no
testimony of mine: and that in times gone by the opposite was true, I will
prove to you, not by any words of my own, but by the record inscribed by
your ancestors on a pillar of bronze, and placed on the Acropolis [not to
be a lesson to themselves--they needed no such record to put them in a
right mind--but to be a reminder and an example to you of the zeal that
you ought to display in such a cause]. {42} What then is the record?
'Arthmius,[n] son of Pythonax, of Zeleia, is an outlaw, and is the enemy
of the Athenian people and their allies, he and his house.' Then follows
the reason for which this step was taken--'because he brought the gold
from the Medes into the Peloponnese.' {43} Such is the record. Consider,
in Heaven's name, what must have been the mind of the Athenians of that
day, when they did this, and their conception of their position. They set
up a record, that because a man of Zeleia, Arthmius by name, a slave of
the King of Persia (for Zeleia is in Asia), as part of his service to the
king, had brought gold, not to Athens, but to the Peloponnese, he should
be an enemy of Athens and her allies, he and his house, and that they
should be outlaws. {44} And this outlawry is no such disfranchisement as