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The Origin of Tyranny

Note 1455 — Chapter X · (a) Capitalist Despots of the Age of Aristotle, (b) the Money Power of the Rulers of Pergamum, (c) Protogenes of Olbia

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οὐ ψθίνει Κροίσου φιλόφρων ἀρετά, Pind. Pyth. I. 93–94; but cp. what the poet says ibid. 95–98, about what was probably a similar government (see above, pp. 274–8), that the Greeks knew from the inside: “Phalaris men tell of everywhere with hate” (ἐχθρὰ Φάλαριν κατέχει παντᾷ φάτις).

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