Royal power
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royal power · greater power · kingdom · rule · sovereign · supreme power · throne · title of king
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Evagoras
The office and possession of kingship, acquired and exercised by Evagoras and inherited by Nicocles.
For it has not escaped the notice of either me or anyone else that you, Nicocles, are the first and the only one of those who possess royal power, wealth, and luxury who has undertaken to pursue the study of philosophy, nor that you will cause many kings, emulating your culture, to desire these studies and to abandon the pursuits in which they now take too great pleasure.
For though it is the duty of all to place a high value upon wisdom, yet you kings especially should do so, who have power over very many and weighty affairs.
but as it is, all would admit that of all blessings whether human or divine supreme power is the greatest, the most august, and the object of greatest strife.
Cyropaedia
Kingship as greater authority accompanied by care, emulation, plotting, and reduced ease.
And in giving you this office, I consider that I leave to your older brother greater power and the title of king, while to you I leave a happiness disturbed by fewer cares;
But to set one’s heart on more difficult undertakings, to be cumbered with many cares, and to be able to find no rest, because spurred on by emulation of what I have done, to lay plots and to be plotted against, all that must necessarily go hand in hand with royal power more than with your station;