“How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”

—  Lucius Cornelius Sulla

To Mithridates VI of Pontus, at a peace conference, as quoted in " Sylla http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/sylla.html" by Plutarch in Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden

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Ancient Roman general, dictator -138–-78 BC

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