Social Commentaries
Book IX, 119
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Social Commentaries
If a man who is a ruler choose to put up with flatterers, he will sacrifice many to their vile mouths ; so the best men, in righteous hatred, should detest the flattered as much as the flatterer.
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