[120] One may best comprehend how great is the reversal in our circumstances if he will read side by side the treaties[113] which were made during our leadership and those which have been published recently; for he will find that in those days we were constantly setting limits to the empire of the King,[114] levying tribute on some of his subjects, and barring him from the sea; now, however, it is he who controls the destinies of the Hellenes, who dictates[115] what they must each do, and who all but sets up his viceroys in their cities.