Arabs

I say, then, that there is no benefit to these light-armed men, not even if they become peltasts, toward justice and true temperance and prudence, not even if they strip still more and run about naked in winter or take the dress of the Medes and Arabs, just as they will not be able to play the flute by putting on the dress of flute-players.

Do you, then, consider that all these—I mean the Celts and Indians and Iberians and Arabs and Babylonians—exact tribute from us, not of land nor of cattle, but of our folly?

Do you reflect that all these peoples—I mean the Celts and Indians and Iberians and Arabs and Babylonians—receive tribute from us, not for their land or their flocks, but for our folly?

Arabes autem et Sinenses a saeculis aliquot ad hunc usque diem perpetuo cum Indis negotiantur.

It is enough to mention the Celts of the dimly discerned heroic age — the days to which the legendary disputes of Ossian and Patrick were assigned — and the Arabs of the time before Islam.

We can force them to co-operate with us by admitting their contention for the sake of argument, and then asking whether the Russians are ready for absolute freedom, and if so, whether the Hindoos are ready, or the Chinese, or the Arabs, or the Hottentots, or the tree-dwarfs?