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the King alone may wear upright the tiara that is upon the head, but another, too, with your help, might easily so wear the one that is upon the heart.

The generals, then, after being thus seized, were taken to the King and put to death by being beheaded.

As soon as this party had come near, they directed whatever Greek general or captain there might be to come forward, in order that they might deliver a message from the King.

and was by them, together with the said goods and lading, brought into the port of Plymouth, as a prize, amongst many others, upon probabilities that the said ship or goods belonged to the subjects of the King of Spain;

Lieutenant of the Tower, that all those ships were laden by the subjects of the King of Spain in Spain;

Peter, amongst divers others, was seized on as lawful prize by His Majesty’s ships and brought into Plimworth, as ships laden by the King of Spain.

the garrisons upon the citadels are immediately under the king’s control, and the colonels in command of the garrisons receive their appointment from the king and are enrolled upon the king’s list.

And those of whom the report often goes out that the king’s son is coming, or the king’s brother or the king’s eye, these belong to the circuit commissioners;

now, on the other hand, if any one seems to bring some advantage to the king by evil-doing, whether as Mithradates did, by betraying his own father Ariobarzanes, or as a certain Rheomithres did, in violating his most sacred oaths and leaving his wife and children and the children of his friends behind as hostages in the power of the king of Egypt —such are the ones who now have the highest honours heaped upon them.

After doing these things and sailing to the Isthmus of Corinth and there exhorting the allies to carry on the war zealously and show themselves men faithful to the King, he left them all the money that he had and sailed off homeward.

Then, after many good men had been collected in the city, Dercylidas crossed over to Sestus, which is opposite Abydus and distant not more than eight stadia, gathered together all who had obtained land in the Chersonese through the Lacedaemonians, and received also all those governors who had been driven out in like fashion from the cities on the European side, saying to them that they ought not t …

Struthas, however, devoted himself assiduously to the Athenians and their allies, remembering all the harm which the King’s country had suffered at the hands of Agesilaus.

Did he not sack five hundred cities of the Romans?

For they add that a certain king of the Libyans attempted to destroy this race of beasts, vexed at the destruction of his people.

But as many of the beasts as were away on the hunt, as soon as they perceived that their dens were destroyed, pursued the army to the river, and catching some in sleep and the others spent with weariness, destroyed them utterly.

A king should not, out of partiality or greed for wealth, initiate legal proceedings himself for men who are not in dispute.

The king, modestly attired, having gone to the court with a concentrated mind, should sit facing east and examine the cases of the litigants, together with elders learned in the three Vedas and ministers skilled in counsel.

Therefore, a king should settle matters in accordance with the sacred texts.

A king, even if he is impoverished, should not take what ought not to be taken;

By taking what ought not to be taken, and by relinquishing what ought to be taken, a king's weakness is revealed, and he perishes both in this world and the next.

176[177M] // A lord of the earth who knows policy should so act with all expedients that his allies, neutral kings, and enemies do not become superior to him.

The punishment and favor shown to men by them according to their own *dharma*, that must also be approved by the king, for they are remembered as having delegated authority.

When there is a dispute of the groups with their chiefs, the king should then investigate it and establish them in their own path.

He who proceeds in a doubtful matter without informing the king, he should be punished for using force, and that object is not achieved.

All treasure belongs to the king, for all classes, except for a Brāhmaṇa.

A Brāhmaṇa, upon finding a treasure, should also quickly report it to the king.

He who, having declared his testimony to others, then denies it, should be punished more severely, for he is worse than a false witness.

Is not the king of the Persians—he who channelled Athos, he who bridged the Hellespont, he who demanded earth and water of the Greeks, he who dared to write in his letters that he was lord of all men from the rising of the sun unto its setting—is he not struggling now, no longer for lordship over others, but already for his life?

But you, Demosthenes, tire us out with your everlasting talk of Thebes and of that most ill-starred alliance, while you are silent as to the seventy talents of the king’s gold which you have seized and embezzled.

Not long before Alexander crossed over into Asia, the king of the Persians sent to our people a most insolent and barbarous letter, in which everything was expressed in the most ill-mannered terms;

there is no refuge ), that is, no place of shelter — because the king takes refuge in his judgement (raʼy) and his help, since upon him turns the pivot of governance (siyāsah) and to him the monies are committed.

then if the king seconds him in enacting it, he enacts it, and the liability for its execution falls back upon the vizier, not the king;

And the liability (darak) for this charge falls back upon the king, not the vizier.

Bryce), as to the deep and wide influence exercised by the Roman Empire, even in its later form, that (of course by a fiction) the Brehon law represents the King of Ireland as ‘accepting stock’ from the Emperor.

The King of Erin, though he never existed (strictly speaking), save for short intervals, yet always, so to speak tended to exist, and the Crith Gablach, a Brehon tract of which a translation is given at the end of Sullivan’s edition of O’Curry’s Lectures, contains a picture of his palace and state.

"Why has it seemed good to you, O king, to put me, your servant, to the test?

For the king had also heard before of Barlaam and his most extreme ascetic life.

" When Zardan heard this message, at early dawn he wrapped his garment about him and went to the king.

For the harshness too of Saul's persecution of David at first, and afterwards his repentance and amends, receiving good for evil, portended nothing else than Paul in Saul according to the tribe, and Jesus in David according to the reckoning of the virgin.

Look, then, you too, with the king of Babylon, into his burning furnace, and you will find there, as it were the Son of man (for he was not yet truly so, namely not yet born of man), even then constituting these issues.

A king should be forgiving towards Brāhmaṇas, affectionate and straightforward towards his friends, wrathful towards his enemies, and like a father to his servants and subjects.

A king should be of great energy, generous, grateful, a servant of the aged, disciplined, endowed with courage, of noble birth, truthful, and pure.

what is bestowed upon Brāhmaṇas is an inexhaustible treasure for kings.

And was it not from then that Abraham, when he was in danger before the king of Egypt on account of Sarah's beauty, properly called her sister and of the same father, but not yet of the same mother?

The Hebrews having increased to a great multitude in Egypt, the king of the country, fearing a plot from their number, ordered them to rear the females among the children born of the Hebrews (for a woman is weak for war), but to destroy the males, suspicious of a vigorous youth.

"For seeing our race grown numerous enough, King Pharaoh devised much guile against us, torturing some mortals at the brick-making and the heavy buildings, and walling cities, for the sake of his own ill-fated ends.

There they served for wages as thetes in the king's household, one tending horses and another oxen.

When they spoke of wages, the king was moved to foolishness and said, “That is the wage you merit, and it is that I give you,” pointing to the sunlight that shone down the smoke vent into the house.

When the king heard this, he was angered, and sent riders after them to slay them.

Among innumerable instances of this kind in ancient history, we may select that given by Xenophon in his account of Cyrus, where that prince takes the king of the Indians for arbitrator between himself and the king of Assyria.

For we find in holy writ, that when the King of the Ammonites demanded the lands situated between the rivers Arnon and Jabok, and those extending from the deserts of Arabia to the Jordan, Jepthah opposed his pretentions by proving his own possession of the same for three hundred years, and asked why he and his ancestors had for so long a period neglected to make their claim.

Dadhīci is belittled, Bali is made false, and the wish-fulfilling tree itself becomes utterly tarnished.

From that king Medinīmalla arose a king named Arjuna, an unequalled man, whose arms were as long as Arjuna's.

King Arjuna's intellect was pure;

The King of the Panchalas killed the courtezan Madhavasena by means of the wedge during congress.

Thus ends the conduct of the King towards the women of the harem, and of their own conduct.

The female attendants in the harem (called severally Kanchukiyas, Mahallarikas, and Mahallikas,) should bring flowers, ointments and clothes from the King's wives to the King, and he having received these things should give them as presents to the servants, along with the things worn by him the previous day.

In January, 1213, by Innocent’s command, formal sentence of excommunication was passed on John, and Philip of France was appointed as its executor.

The final crash came on Sunday, 27th July, when the King of France triumphed over John’s allies at the decisive battle of Bouvines.

Philip’s threatened invasion had to be abandoned;

The King of Prussia, that “good and just man who,” in Cobden’s eyes, “shattered the sceptre of despotism, even in his own hand,” by his zeal for popular education, has been succeeded by a combinded King of Prussia and German Emperor, whose power is based on the fact that Prussia is, as it always has been, and Germany is fast becoming, a military state in which the whole nation is a trained army.

And as the welfare of the city and the good order of its affairs come about only if the king is learned in the courses of governance, comprehends the modes of management, knows the outcomes of affairs, governs the soldiery and sets the subjects straight;

Our youngest brother, too, Aphobetus yonder, who as ambassador to the king of Persia has served you to the credit of the city, who administered your revenues honestly and well when you called him to the department of the treasury, who has gotten him children lawfully—not by putting his wife in Cnosion’s bed, as you, Demosthenes, did yours—he also is here, despite your slanders;