[C] Very true.
And when a man who is wealthy and is also accused of being an enemy of the people sees this, then, my friend, as the oracle said to Croesus,
‘By pebbly Hermus’ shore he flees and rests not, and is not ashamed to be a coward[11].’
[11] Herod. i. 55.
And quite right too, said he, for if he were, he would never be ashamed again.
But if he is caught he dies.
Of course.
[D] The protector standing up in the chariot of State. And he, the protector of whom we spoke, is to be seen, not ‘larding the plain’ with his bulk, but himself the overthrower of many, standing up in the chariot of State with the reins in his hand, no longer protector, but tyrant absolute. 276
No doubt, he said.
And now let us consider the happiness of the man, and also of the State in which a creature like him is generated.