When they’ve dropped the pretences, OG rapacity calls for OG insults as well, I suppose.

So now-by the gods of the Hellenes–come rescue the Ionians from slavery; they are of the same blood as you, after all. This will be easy for you to accomplish, since the barbarians are not valiant, while you have attained the highest degree of excellence in war. Since they fight with bows and short spears, wearing trousers and turbans on their heads, [4] they are easily subdued. Further, the inhabitants of that continent possess more good things than all the other peoples of the world put together. To begin with, they have gold as well as silver, bronze, colorful clothing, beasts of burden, and slaves, all of which could be yours if you really desired them.

• Aristogoras, Ionian tyrant of Miletus in Anatolia, imploring Kleomenes, king of Sparta, to intervene against the Persians in Herodotus, The Histories Book 5.