King

For yourselves, the King demands your arms;

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

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.

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.

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;

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.

In times past it was their national custom that those who held lands should furnish cavalrymen from their possessions and that these, in case of war, should also take the field, while those who performed outpost duty in defence of the country received pay for their services.

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 …

As for Tiribazus, he thought that it was not safe for him to take the side of the Lacedaemonians without the King’s approval;

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 the Libyans fled in haste from the place, resting neither night nor day, until, thinking they had gained a long lead, they encamped beside a certain river.

The accused and the restrained should remain by the king's order.

He should be free from arrogance, cruelty, slander, fickleness, and anger;

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

Unjust punishment destroys fame in this world and glory;

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

A righteous king, having fined the three *varnas* who give false evidence, should banish them;

The king should take a sixth part, and likewise a ninth and a tenth, from those of the Shudra, Vaishya, and Kshatriya classes;

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.

the king should punish that sinner.

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.

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?

In a word, the king’s gold stays with Demosthenes, the dangers, fellow citizens, with you.

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;

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.

" The king said:

" Again the king said:

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

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.

But just punishment brings the king heaven, fame, and victory.

Then he may engage in personal recreation or meet with his ministers.

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?

Here the daughter of the king, who for a long time had not conceived but desired children, comes on that day to the river to use it for bathing and sprinkling;

"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.

Whenever she baked bread, the loaf of the thete Perdiccas grew double in size.

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

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

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.

King Arjuna's intellect was pure;

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

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

And lastly the work which the King's wives have to do should not be too fatiguing.

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

Philip’s threatened invasion had to be abandoned;

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

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 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.

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;

Agatharchus only made his escape three months later, by slipping past his guards and running away as he might have done from the king of Persia.

He, summoned by the king of the Moabites with the greatest of gifts, would not consent to utter a word against the will of God, nor to curse Israel, whom the Lord does not curse.