Subjects
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subjects · people · citizens · comrades · masses · oppressed subjects · people subject to their despotism · the multitude · them
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Hiero
The ruled population under a despot, often appearing as oppressed, resentful, or capable of organized public improvement.
but despots are never at peace with the people subject to their despotism, and no truce can ever make a despot confident.
There are, of course, wars that are waged by states against one another, and wars waged by the despot against his oppressed subjects.
For all communities are divided into parts— tribes, wards, unions, as the case may be—and every one of these parts is subject to its appointed ruler.
To Nicocles
Subjects are the citizens and multitude governed by the king, whose welfare, prosperity, rights, and character are affected by his rule.
and do not hold the view that while diligence is of use in all other matters it is of no avail to make us better and wiser;
Let it be a sign to you that you rule wisely if you see all your subjects growing more prosperous and more temperate because of your oversight.
Make industry profitable for your people and lawsuits detrimental, in order that they may shun the latter and embrace the former with greater willingness.
Cyropaedia
Subjects are the people whose affection a ruler should gain through benefaction, sympathy, and protective care.
but as to the love of one’s subjects— and this, it seems to me at least, is one of the most important questions—the same course that you would take if you wished to gain the affection of your friends leads also to that;
but to show that you rejoice with them if any good befall them, that you sympathize with them if any ill betide, that you are eager to help them in times of distress, that you are anxious that they be not crossed in any way, and that you try to prevent their being crossed;