# Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἀρχαιολογία 3.11.2

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἀρχαιολογία, Book 3, Chapter 11. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/dionysius-of-halicarnassus/text-2/3.11.2

πολλά γέ τοι φῦλά ἐστιν ἀνθρώπων, παρʼ οἷς αἱ μητροπόλεις οὐκ ἄρχουσιν ἀλλʼ ὑποτάττονται ταῖς ἀποικίαις. μέγιστον δὲ καὶ φανερώτατον τοῦ λόγου τοῦδε παράδειγμα ἡ Σπαρτιατῶν πόλις οὐ τῶν ἄλλων μόνον ἄρχειν ἀξιοῦσα Ἑλλήνων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ Δωρικοῦ γένους ὅθεν ἀπῳκίσθη. καὶ τί δεῖ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων λέγειν; αὐτοὶ γὰρ ὑμεῖς οἱ τὴν ἡμετέραν πόλιν ἀποικίσαντες Λαουϊνιατῶν ἐστε ἄποικοι.

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἀρχαιολογία, ed. Karl Jacoby. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0081.tlg001.local001/.