Tyranny

And when they had entered, they came upon Tyranny seated aloft of set purpose, pretending and likening herself to Royalty, but on a throne much loftier, as she fancied, and finer, with countless other carvings, and decked out with an inlay of gold and ivory and amber and ebony and colours of every kind.

but this latter I for my part hold most hateful and most foul, so that I would most gladly thrust her down this cliff and make away with her.

And there was about her a throng of women in no way like those whom I said were about Royalty, but Cruelty and Insolence and Lawlessness and Faction, who all corrupted her and were destroying her most miserably.

For if we must do wrong, to do so for tyranny is the fairest cause, but in all else piety should be our aim.

I would go to the rising of the stars and the sun, or beneath the earth, if I were able so to do, to win Tyranny, the greatest of the gods.