“Lordship for many is no good thing. Let there be one ruler,
one king.”
II. 204–205 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
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Οὐκ ἀγαθὸν πολυκοιρανίη· εἷς κοίρανος ἔστω, εἷς βασιλεύς.
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