Book, Par.
1 I, 1 | through their passion for flattery, or, on the other hand,
2 I, 1 | detraction and spite, because flattery involves the shameful imputation
3 I, 15 | assailed by adulation, by flattery, that worst poison of the
4 I, 18 | speech he added no word of flattery, no hint of a bribe. Yet
5 I, 35 | discordant expressions of an idle flattery; on the contrary, as soon
6 I, 84 | language, was familiar with flattery. Accordingly, they discussed
7 I, 89 | and cries which habitual flattery prompted in the people were
8 II, 30 | extolling, in the implied flattery, the strength of the new
9 II, 33 | they had taken refuge in flattery. It having been resolved
10 II, 46 | to the last. This was no flattery; they were fired by a furious
11 II, 57 | checked the disgraceful flattery. Then, with his characteristic
12 II, 64 | seductions of fortune, no flattery from the State, could move
13 II, 76 | present the semblance of flattery. To be chosen successor
14 II, 80 | with profuse expressions of flattery, he addressed them. He could
15 II, 90 | learnt the lesson of habitual flattery, applauded him with shouts
16 II, 101| distorted representations of flattery assigned as the motives
17 III, 37 | receiver, wormed himself by flattery into the one day of office
18 IV, 4 | had a practised talent for flattery, declared their acquiescence
19 V, 6 | less in their temples. This flattery is not paid to their kings,
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