But, he said, the newspaper "in its self-laudation could hardly give credit to anyone outside of its staff."

但是，他又说，报社“为了它自身的荣耀是绝不会给任何外人以信誉的。”

In this genre there is no praise of individual; it is a laudation of the collective Athenians, which is turned into an encomium of the greatness of the polis.

在这文类之中并没有对个别之人的赞扬，而是对雅典人整体歌颂，而这又进一步的晚话成为对市民城邦之伟大的咏叹。