How can we praise a dominion who incites such abominable things

How can we praise a dominion which subjects us to so miserable an end? How can we fail to abhor and shun a power which has incited cities both to do and to suffer many abominable things?  Isocrates.  On The Peace.  Speech 8.  Section 105.

Image: The Plague (of Justinian) at Ashdod by Nicolas Poussin, 1630, The Louvre, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.