"The Barbarian hopes — and that is the very mark of him — that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume wh…"

"Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the C…"

"Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can s…"

"“Demades said that Xerxes fortified the sea with his ships, covered the land with his armies, concealed the sky with …"

"In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this that he cannot make; that he can befog or destroy, but th…"

"What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?The barbarians are due here today."

"Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas? Why have they pu…"

"Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion? (How serious people's faces have become.) Why are the streets and squar…"

"Some of the men muttered and looked at the youth in awe-struck ways...It was revealed to him that he had been a barba…"

"Civilisation is a process of exclusion as well as inclusion. The boundary between 'us' and 'them' may be an internal …"