INDIGST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Helvius Cinna, Pomerium, Diarrhea
31 May 2017
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Monarchy, on the contrary, strikes the ear unpleasantly, but is a very excellent government to live under. And again, even though one reprobate should obtain supreme power, yet he is preferable to a multitude of such persons, as the history of the. Greeks and barbarians and of the romans themselves proves. For successes have always been greater and more in number in the case both of cities and of individuals under kings than under popular rule, and disasters do not happen so easily in monarchies as in ochlocracies. It happened as follows, and his death (3) was due to the cause i shall presently describe. He neither dared to thrust them all aside, for fear of being thought contemptuous, nor could he be safe when he accepted them. They will be stated all together, even if they were not all moved or ratified at one time.
