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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: with the old woman, the complaints of all that would come. And
to do justice, truly enough, might well be called a king's first
business. "Mars," as says Timotheus, "is the tyrant;" but Law,
in Pindar's words, the king of all. Homer does not say that
kings received at the hands of Jove besieging engines or ships
of war, but sentences of justice, to keep and observe; nor is it
the most warlike, unjust, and murderous, but the most righteous
of kings, that has from him the name of Jupiter's "familiar
friend" and scholar. Demetrius's delight was the title most
unlike the choices of the king of gods. The divine names were
those of the Defender and Keeper, his was that of the Besieger
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