Inevitably.
This, I said, is he who begins to make a party against the rich?
The same.
After a time he is driven out, but comes back a full-blown tyrant. After a while he is driven out, but comes back, in spite of his enemies, a tyrant full grown.
That is clear.
[B] And if they are unable to expel him, or to get him condemned to death by a public accusation, they conspire to assassinate him.
Yes, he said, that is their usual way.
The body-guard. Then comes the famous request for a body-guard, which is the device of all those who have got thus far in their tyrannical career—‘Let not the people’s friend,’ as they say, ‘be lost to them.’
Exactly.
The people readily assent; all their fears are for him—they have none for themselves.