Note 1121 — Chapter VIII · Rome

Cp. Diod. VIII. fr. 31, “making himself agreeable to everyone (πᾶσι προσφιλῶς ὁμιλῶν)”; Dion. Hal. III. 48, “by courteous greetings and ingratiating discourses” (cp. VI. 60, “every tyrant develops out of a mob flatterer”); Livy I. 34, “benigno alloquio, comitate inuitandi,” I. 35, “he is said to have been the first to canvass for the throne and to have made a speech designed to win over the plebeians.”