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Plato, Menexenus, 242d

nan and made peace, since they deemed that against their fellow Greeks it was right to wage war only up to the point of victory, and not to wreck the whole Greek community for the sake of a city’s private grudge, but to wage war to the death against the barbarians. It is meet, indeed, that we should praise these men who were warriors in this war and now lie here, inasmuch as they demonstrated that if any contended that in the former war, against the barbarians, others were superior to the Athenians, their contention was false.

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barbarians,greeks and	Isaac (2004) 284
europe,contrasted with asia	Isaac (2004) 284
freedom,individual and collective'	Isaac (2004) 284
lysias,favors an attack on persia	Isaac (2004) 284
lysias,on freedom	Isaac (2004) 284
plato,on barbarians as natural enemies	Isaac (2004) 284
plato,states that barbarians are to be destroyed in war	Isaac (2004) 284