Polybius Quotes

In Our Own Time The Whole Of Greece Has Been Subject To A Low Birth Rate And A General Decrease Of The Population, Owing To Which Cities Have Become Deserted And The Land Has Ceased To Yield Fruit, Although There Have Neither Been Continuous Wars Nor Epidemics ... For As Men Had Fallen Into Such A State Of Pretentiousness, Avarice, And Indolence That They Did Not Wish To Marry, Or If They Married To Rear The Children Born To Them, Or At Most As A Rule But One Or Two Of Them, So As To Leave These In Affluence And Bring Them Up To Waste Their Substance, The Evil Rapidly And Insensibly Grew.

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