12The state of Epirus was much the same. For in proportion as the majority of its people are more The disturbed state of Epirus. See 27, 15. law-abiding than those of Aetolia, so their chief magistrate surpassed every one else in wickedness and contempt for law. For, I think, there never was and never will be a character more ferocious and brutal than that of Charops. . . .