But instead of that, they assigned no honor whatsoever to our city or to Lacedaemon , while they set up the barbarian as lord of all
 Asia; as if we had gone to war for his sake, or as if the rule of the Persians had been
 long established, and we were only just now founding our cities—whereas in fact it is they
 who have only recently attained this place of honor, while Athens and Lacedaemon have been
 throughout their entire history a power among the Hellenes. I think, however, that I shall show still more clearly both the dishonor which we have
 suffered, and the advantage which the King has gained by putting the matter in this way:
 All the world which lies beneath the firmament being divided into two parts, the one
 called Asia, the other Europe , he has taken half
 of it by the Treaty, as if he were apportioning the earth with Zeus, Compare the boast of Xerxes in Hdt. 7.8 . and
 not making compacts with men. Yes, and he has compelled us to engrave this Treaty on pillars of stone and place it in
 our public temples See Isoc.
 12.107 . — a trophy far more glorious for him than those which are set up
 on fields of battle; for the latter are for minor deeds and a single success, but this
 treaty stands as a memorial of the entire war and of the humiliation of the whole of
 Hellas . These things may well rouse our indignation and make us look to the means by which we
 shall take vengeance for the past and set the future right. For verily it is shameful for
 us, who in our private life think the barbarians are fit only to be used as household
 slaves, to permit by our public policy so many of our allies to be enslaved by them; and
 it is disgraceful for us, when our fathers who engaged in the Trojan expedition because of
 the rape of one woman, all shared so deeply in the indignation of the wronged that they
 did not stop waging war until they had laid in ruins the city of him who had dared to
 commit the crime,