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 1      I, II  |       were originally governed by kings; because the Hellenes were
 2     II, IX  |         the days of their ancient kings, they were in the habit
 3     II, IX  |        their power, that even the kings have been compelled to court
 4     II, IX  |         case at Sparta, where the kings desire its permanence because
 5     II, IX  |         motives of crime.~Whether kings are or are not an advantage
 6     II, IX  |          the quarrels between the kings were held to be conservative
 7     II, IX  |     source of dissension, for the kings are perpetual generals,
 8     II, XI  | improvement. They have also their kings and their gerusia, or council
 9     II, XI  |     elders, who correspond to the kings and elders of Sparta. Their
10     II, XI  |           elders of Sparta. Their kings, unlike the Spartan, are
11     II, XI  |        and some to oligarchy. The kings and elders, if unanimous,
12     II, XI  |         as well. And whatever the kings and elders bring before
13     II, XI  |         the highest of them—their kings and generals—with an eye
14     II, XI  |         offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be
15    III, IV  |           are not the children of kings instructed in riding and
16    III, XIII|       that men like him should be kings in their state for life.~
17    III, XIV |         absolute, except when the kings go on an expedition, and
18    III, XIV |      tyrants are mercenaries. For kings rule according to law over
19    III, XIV |        them; and thus they became kings of voluntary subjects, and
20    III, XV  |           Further, they were made kings because they were benefactors,
21    III, XVI |           already the practice of kings to make to themselves many
22      V, VII |            as Lysander was by the kings of Sparta; or, when a brave
23      V, X   |     originated in the ambition of kings wanting to overstep the
24      V, X   |    several others were originally kings, and ended by becoming tyrants;
25      V, X   |         Macedonian, and Molossian kings. The idea of a king is to
26      V, X   |      themselves, and (2) when the kings attempt to administer the
27      V, X   |      destruction is the fact that kings often fall into contempt,
28      V, XI  |       restricted the functions of kings, the longer their power
29      V, XI  |       diminished the power of the kings, but established on a more
30     VI, VIII|         called archons, sometimes kings, and sometimes prytanes.~
31    VII, XIV |         this is unattainable, and kings have no marked superiority
32   VIII, V   |       like the Persian and Median kings, enjoy the pleasure and