That is, more or less, what did happen in the Roman world and I don't see anything that's suggested it couldn't happen in the Greek world at the time we're talking about.

那就是,或多或少的,我看不到任何事物可以表明,在罗马社会发生的事情不会,在我们所讨论的这个时期的希腊发生

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