<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0014.tlg009.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" n="32"><p rend="indent">Yet what is wanting to crown his insolence? Not content with the destruction of cities, is he not organizing the Pythian games, the common festival of the Greeks, and if he cannot be present in person, sending his menials to act as stewards? <delSpan spanTo="#a002"/>Is he not master of <placeName key="perseus,Thermopylae">Thermopylae</placeName> and the passes into <placeName key="tgn,1000074">Greece</placeName>, holding those places with his garrisons and his mercenaries? Has he not the right of precedence at the Oracle, ousting us and the Thessalians and the Dorians and the rest of the Amphictyons from a privilege which not even all Greek states can claim?<anchor xml:id="a002"/></p></div></div></body></text></TEI>