People who have never known of civil society; people who have never known of a world with polis, well, of course,they would do something stupid like that.

希腊人认为不知道文明社会的人,也不会知道城邦的世界,所以才会做出如此愚蠢的行为

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No, they weren't like that, the Greeks were ahead of them and it's evident that they borrowed stuff from the Greeks in every element of life, although it didn't shape their lives in a potent, fundamental way.

不,他们不是文明的,希腊人比他们先进,也有证据表明,他们从希腊人那里学习了生活中的各种东西,虽然这些并未从根本上,有力地改变他们的生活

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