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Excerpt from Les M�decins Grecs A Rome
On a souvent racont� comment, au Vie 51ecle Rome, une des grandes �poques de l'histoire, les Romains qui conqu�raient alors le monde furent eux-m�mes conquis par la civilisation. La Gr�ce soumise, dit le po�te, soumit son barbare vain queur. En r�alit�, cette pacifique conqu�te �tait d�ja bien avanc�e quand le sac de Corinthe et la dissolution de la ligue ach�enne ray�rent de la liste des nations le plus grand peuple de l'antiquit�. Au lendemain de la prise de Rh�gium, la derni�re ville libre de la P�ninsule, c'est - �-dire pr�s de cent ans avant le jour o� le malicieux Flamininus faisait semblant d'accorder aux Grecs la libert�, un bien qui se prend ou se garde, comme on a dit, mais qui.
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