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    Tyrants

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    tyrants · the tyrants · a man who is a tyrant · a multitude of tyrants · despots · kings · monarchs

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    The Tyrants1 mention

    On His Return (Greek)

    I am not lying — no lie of this sort could deceive my older listeners — when I say that my father’s grandfather, Leogoras, led a revolt of the people against the tyrants, and in spite of the opportunity of coming to terms with them, marrying into their house, and ruling the people of Athens at their side, chose to share the exile of the democrats and suffer the hardships of banishment rather than …
    on his return

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    On His ReturnClassical · Greek

    The ruling tyrants of an earlier era whom Leogoras' popular revolt opposed, despite the chance to ally with them.

    I am not lying — no lie of this sort could deceive my older listeners — when I say that my father’s grandfather, Leogoras, led a revolt of the people against the tyrants, and in spite of the opportunity of coming to terms with them, marrying into their house, and ruling the people of Athens at their side, chose to share the exile of the democrats and suffer the hardships of banishment rather than …
    on his return

    An Essay on Crimes and PunishmentsEnlightenment · English

    Rulers or oppressors who exercise power without regard to necessity or law, repeatedly condemned throughout the passage.

    I should have every thing to fear, if tyrants were to read my book;
    chapter 6
    Crimes will be less frequent, in proportion as the code of laws is more universally read, and understood;
    chapter 7
    To this art it is owing, that the atrocious crimes of our ancestors, who were alternately slaves and tyrants, are become less frequent.
    chapter 7

    On the ChersoneseClassical · Greek

    Autocratic rulers installed or expelled by Philip as part of his political strategy.

    It would not have been safe in Thessaly to plead Philip’s cause, if the commoners of Thessaly had not shared in the advantages that Philip conferred when he expelled their tyrants and restored to them their Amphictyonic privileges.
    on the chersonese
    On the other hand, while you stay at home, at leisure and in health —(if indeed they could say that men who behave thus are in health)— Philip has set up two despots in Euboea, entrenching one right over against Attica and the other as a menace to Sciathus;
    on the chersonese

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    The class of absolute rulers whose condition, generalized from the Persian king, is analyzed as one of perpetual fear, suspicion, and inability to experience genuine pleasure or friendship.

    But for tyrants both these things are harder than for the rest;
    oration 6
    But to gratify many often is not easy without taking from others.
    oration 6
    And he ever fears the power of the rich and the desire for wealth of the poor.
    oration 6

    AreopagiticusClassical · Greek

    The rulers expelled before the people were restored to power by Cleisthenes.

    For I find that the one way—the only possible way—which can avert future perils from us and deliver us from our present ills is that we should be willing to restore that earlier democracy which was instituted by Solon, who proved himself above all others the friend of the people, and which was re-established by Cleisthenes, who drove out the tyrants and brought the people back into power— a govern …
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