“[Thus] the people pay for the mad folly of their princes who, evilly minded, pervert judgement and give sentence crookedly.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 260.
Original
Ὄφρ᾽ ἀποτείσῃ δῆμος ἀτασθαλίας βασιλέων, οἳ λυγρὰ νοεῦντες ἄλλῃ παρκλίνωσι δίκας σκολιῶς ἐνέποντες.
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Hesiod 61
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Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 33.
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